PUBLIC MARKS with tags copyright & drm

Protecting Creative Works Audible Magic provides registration services to owners of music. Registering your creative works in Audible Magic’s database will reduce chances for your works to be pirated over P2P networks or volume duplicated to media like CDs. Audible Magic’s patented media fingerprinting process provides the means to identify registered works. You supply copies of your audio content along with ownership and release information. Then your works will be fingerprinted and registered in Audible Magic’s rapidly growing database. Audible Magic’s database provides the basis for multiple anti-piracy services. Our customers include individual producers of media content, major and independent music industry labels, artist rights groups, royalty tracking organizations, new artist discovery organizations and disk replication companies worldwide. In the music industry, Audible Magic maintains one of the world’s largest databases of electronic fingerprints and copyright owner information, representing over 6 million sound recordings.

必要性を感じてるのはACCSの会員の半分くらいだけ

Music label confirms that it will first sell higher-quality, copy protection-free digital music through iTunes Store.

知財じゃなくて利権財産の方がしっくりくる希ガス

News digest about copyright, DRM, patents, piracy etc.

"In fact, the Directive does not do much for authors at all. It is primarily geared towards protecting the rights and interests of the ‘main players’ in the information industry (producers, broadcasters and institutional users), not of the creators...

Digital Rights Managements hurts paying customers, destroys Fair Use rights, renders customers' investments worthless, and can always be defeated. Why are consumers and publishers being forced to use DRM?