[Fwd: "What Consumers Want in Digital Rights Management"]

["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

FYI...

> From: "Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> To: "Liblicense-L (E-mail)" <liblicense-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Subject: What Consumers Want in Digital Rights Management

> Date: Thu,  1 May 2003 15:38:52 EDT

> http://www.publishers.org/press/releases.cfm?PressReleaseArticleID=140

> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

> March 21, 2003

>

> Contact: Ed McCoyd

> Ph: 212-255-0200 ext264

> Email: emccoyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

 AAP and ALA Release White Paper to Promote User-friendly DRM Products
New York, NY, March 21, 2003: The Association of American Publishers
(AAP) and the American Library Association (ALA) have released a joint
White Paper promoting the usage capabilities in Digital Rights
Management (DRM)products for e-books that publishers, librarians, and
researchers say are most needed in order to satisfy consumer
preferences.

E-book DRM technology consists of encryption and other systems that
publishers and authors use to protect their works against unauthorized
copying, and to define the ways in which an e-book can be accessed and
used. DRM systems for e-books are currently offered by a number of
different software providers, and this White Paper is intended to
provide guidance to technology vendors as they build and improve DRM
products for the industry.
 Title: What Consumers Want in Digital Rights Management (DRM): Making
Content as Widely Available as Possible In Ways that Satisfy Consumer
Preferences
Sponsor: AAP and ALA
Author: F. Hill Slowinski
DOI: 10.1003/whitepaper1

White paper available
at:http://www.publishers.org/press/pdf/DRMWhitePaper.pdf

OR: http://doi.contentdirections.com/mr/aap.jsp?doi=10.1003/whitepaper1