Rights Management and Copyright

Study on E-Book Interoperability for French Government Agency

Posted on April 20, 2018April 20, 2018 by TreadwellMedia in Government Agencies, Rights Management and Copyright

For HADOPI, an agency of the French Ministry of Culture and Tourism, created a summary of the market for e-book DRM technologies in France; then performed a study of a proposal for legislation that would require e-books distributed with DRM to be interoperable across distributors, DRM technologies, and e-reading systems. Made recommendations for an alternative … Continue reading Study on E-Book Interoperability for French Government Agency →

Expertise on Library Ebook Lending for Copyright Law Proceeding

Posted on April 9, 2018April 20, 2018 by TreadwellMedia in Government Agencies, Libraries, Rights Management and Copyright

For the Section 108 Study Group, a group convened by the Library of Congress to address the provision in U.S. copyright law granting additional rights to libraries and archives, advised on current industry practices and technologies for library ebook lending to inform potential changes to the law.

Rights Management System for Educational Publisher

Posted on April 8, 2018 by TreadwellMedia in Educational Publishers, Rights Management and Copyright

For a large educational publisher, implemented systems and processes to capture assets to be used in a product and drive them through rights research, clearance and payment activities for new editions. Modified the existing rights systems to capture a broader range of rights information that is now used for reporting and remediation of potential term … Continue reading Rights Management System for Educational Publisher →

DRM Evaluation for Academic Publisher

Posted on April 3, 2018May 5, 2020 by TreadwellMedia in Journal Publishers, Professional Publishers, Rights Management and Copyright, Scholarly Publishers

For a UK-based academic and professional publisher, evaluated DRM solutions for e-books and PDF documents, and determined how they could integrate with its web publishing platform.

Rights Expression Language Standards Development

Posted on April 3, 2018April 9, 2018 by TreadwellMedia in Rights Management and Copyright, Standards, Standards Bodies

For the Association of American Publishers, gathered requirements from member companies for digital rights management and represented them to the MPEG Rights Expression Language (MPEG REL) standards initiative.