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Open Media Commons

  • 22-08-2005 06:47PM
    #1
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭


    http://www.openmediacommons.org/
    Our Goals:

    * Specify open, royalty-free digital rights management and codec standards.
    * Promote the creation, duplication and distribution of digital content and ensure that creators and owners get compensated.
    * Collaborate with like-minded open-source communities.
    * Influence standards organizations.

    Our Principles:

    * Innovation flourishes through openness - open standards, reference architectures and implementations.
    * All creators are users and many users are creators.
    * Content creators and holders of copyright should be compensated.
    * Respect for users' privacy is essential.
    * Code (both laws and technology) should encourage innovation.


Comments

  • #2
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Wonderful ideals and all, but is it likely to be adopted?

    Personally, I would love to see an open, fair, backwards-compatible DRM that sells to the user and not the device, but is ever a thing like this going to succeed?

    I can't see the entertainment industry putting their content in the hands of something that is openly documented. Nor can I see the any of the current proprietary DRM vendors adopting it (especially Microsoft or Apple - they each have a pretty big stake in the market as it is). Ok, so perhaps the small individual publisher may take advantage of it, but without any kind of wide industry support could a project like this take off the ground in any meaningful way?


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