From thardjono@mediaone.net Mon Dec 3 14:24:04 2001 From: thardjono@mediaone.net (Thomas Hardjono) Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 09:24:04 -0500 Subject: [IETF-IDRM] [IDRM] CfP; Digital Rights Management 2002 Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.2.20011203092307.018e7cf0@pop.ne.mediaone.net> .Status: U .From: Tomas Sander .Subject: CfP; Digital Rights Management 2002 .Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 13:11:44 -0800 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT 2002 Strategies for Technological, Legal and Political Solutions Regarding Digital Goods - Focusing on the European Copyright Directive January 29-30, 2002 Berlin, Germany Conference web site: http://digital-rights-management.de Content is King!- the distribution of music, video, and books over the Internet and other digital means is increasingly displacing more traditional distribution methods."Digital Rights Management (DRM)"systems promise new types of business and usage models for the distribution of content while, at the same time, protecting the interests of copyright holders. Legal regulations such as the new European Copyright Directive strengthen the technical protection of DRM systems by legal anti-circumvention provisions. This combination of technology, law, politics, economics, and business creates numerous conflicts of interests which will have to be taken into account during the transformation of the Copyright Directive into national law. The Second DRM Conference tackles these controversial topics. Speakers from the content industry, societies for the collection of royalties, information and communication technology companies, as well as, data protection commissioners, representatives of cyber-liberty groups, government officials, politicians, artists, and scientists will discuss these controversial issues and will suggest solutions concerning the commercialization of digital content. Topics include: how to protect the interests of the content industry and of the users, the implications of DRM systems on privacy protection and cryptographic research as well as the introduction of a levy on computer hardware in Germany and other European countries. Technology companies will present their DRM systems and scientists will give an evaluation. ------------------------------------------------------ Keynote speaker: Dr. Joerg Reinbothe (European Commission/Head of Unit Copyright and Neighboring Rights) ------------------------------------------------------ The conference program and registration information, are available at the web site: http://digital-rights-management.de The deadline for registration is DECEMBER 21, 2001. We would appreciate if you forward information about this conference to parties that might be interested. ------------------------------------------------------ The conference is sponsored by the Research Alliance Data Security NRW and cosponsored by the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce, the North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) Ministry of Schooling, Education, Science and Research, the European Institute for IT Security (Bochum, Germany) and the GITS AG - Company for IT-Security (Bochum). ------------------------------------------------------ Organizing Committee: Dr. Stefan Bechtold (Stanford Law School/University Tuebingen) Prof. Dr. Eberhard Becker (Research Alliance Data Security NRW) Dirk Guennewig (EURUBITS, Research Alliance Data Security NRW) Dr. Ina Pernice (Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce) Dr. Tomas Sander (InterTrust STAR Lab) --- end forwarded text From susanne.guth@wu-wien.ac.at Wed Dec 5 16:15:30 2001 From: susanne.guth@wu-wien.ac.at (Susanne Guth) Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 17:15:30 +0100 Subject: [IETF-IDRM] [IDRM] Fwd: CfP; Digital Rights Management 2002 Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20011205171451.02290ec8@isis.wu-wien.ac.at> > > CALL FOR PARTICIPATION > DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT 2002 > > Strategies for Technological, Legal and > Political Solutions Regarding Digital Goods - > Focusing on the European Copyright Directive > > January 29-30, 2002 > Berlin, Germany > >Conference web site: http://digital-rights-management.de > >Content is King!- the distribution of music, video, and books >over the Internet and other digital means is increasingly >displacing more traditional distribution methods."Digital >Rights Management (DRM)"systems promise new types of business >and usage models for the distribution of content while, at >the same time, protecting the interests of copyright holders. >Legal regulations such as the new European Copyright >Directive strengthen the technical protection of DRM systems >by legal anti-circumvention provisions. This combination of >technology, law, politics, economics, and business creates >numerous conflicts of interests which will have to be taken >into account during the transformation of the Copyright >Directive into national law. The Second DRM Conference >tackles these controversial topics. Speakers from the content >industry, societies for the collection of royalties, >information and communication technology companies, as well as, >data protection commissioners, representatives of cyber-liberty >groups, government officials, politicians, artists, and >scientists will discuss these controversial issues and will >suggest solutions concerning the commercialization of digital >content. Topics include: how to protect the interests of the >content industry and of the users, the implications of DRM >systems on privacy protection and cryptographic research as >well as the introduction of a levy on computer hardware in >Germany and other European countries. Technology companies >will present their DRM systems and scientists will give an >evaluation. >------------------------------------------------------ >Keynote speaker: >Dr. Joerg Reinbothe >(European Commission/Head of Unit Copyright and >Neighboring Rights) >------------------------------------------------------ >The conference program and registration information, >are available at the web site: >http://digital-rights-management.de >The deadline for registration is JANUARY 7, 2001. >We would appreciate if you forward information about >this conference to parties that might be interested. >------------------------------------------------------ >The conference is sponsored by the Research Alliance Data >Security NRW and cosponsored by the Association of German >Chambers of Industry and Commerce, the North Rhine-Westphalia >(Germany) Ministry of Schooling, Education, Science and Research, >the European Institute for IT Security (Bochum, Germany) and >the GITS AG - Company for IT-Security (Bochum). >------------------------------------------------------ >Organizing Committee: >Dr. Stefan Bechtold >(Stanford Law School/University Tuebingen) >Prof. Dr. Eberhard Becker >(Research Alliance Data Security NRW) >Dirk Guennewig >(EURUBITS, Research Alliance Data Security NRW) >Dr. Ina Pernice >(Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce) >Dr. Tomas Sander >(InterTrust STAR Lab) > ___________________________________ Dipl.-Wirt.Inform. Susanne Guth Assistant Professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Department of Information Systems - New Media, http://nm.wu-wien.ac.at/people/Guth.htm susanne.guth@wu-wien.ac.at, +43 1 31336 4427 From thardjono@mediaone.net Thu Dec 13 16:16:33 2001 From: thardjono@mediaone.net (Thomas Hardjono) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:16:33 -0500 Subject: [IETF-IDRM] [IDRM] Fwd: MS Patent for DRM OS Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.2.20011213111518.018ed510@pop.ne.mediaone.net> Status: U Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 23:16:44 -0800 To: cypherpunks@lne.com From: John Young Subject: MS Patent for DRM OS Sender: owner-cypherpunks@lne.com Microsoft's patent for a Digital Rights Management Operating System was awarded yesterday: http://cryptome.org/ms-drm-os.htm Abstract A digital rights management operating system protects rights-managed data, such as downloaded content, from access by untrusted programs while the data is loaded into memory or on a page file as a result of the execution of a trusted application that accesses the memory. To protect the rights-managed data resident in memory, the digital rights management operating system refuses to load an untrusted program into memory while the trusted application is executing or removes the data from memory before loading the untrusted program. If the untrusted program executes at the operating system level, such as a debugger, the digital rights management operating system renounces a trusted identity created for it by the computer processor when the computer was booted. To protect the rights-managed data on the page file, the digital rights management operating system prohibits raw access to the page file, or erases the data from the page file before allowing such access. Alternatively, the digital rights management operating system can encrypt the rights-managed data prior to writing it to the page file. The digital rights management operating system also limits the functions the user can perform on the rights-managed data and the trusted application, and can provide a trusted clock used in place of the standard computer clock. --- end forwarded text From thardjono@verisign.com Mon Dec 17 18:11:05 2001 From: thardjono@verisign.com (Hardjono, Thomas) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:11:05 -0800 Subject: [IETF-IDRM] [IDRM] Fwd: IETF debates lawsuit risks of U.S. copyright act Message-ID: <2F3EC696EAEED311BB2D009027C3F4F4039E5881@vhqpostal.verisign.com> IETF debates lawsuit risks of U.S. copyright act By Carolyn Duffy Marsan Network World Fusion, 12/13/01 The Internet's premier standards-setting body is concerned that its participants could be subject to criminal or civil lawsuits under the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act as they develop security protocols that can be used to protect copyrighted materials on the `Net. Although the risk is slim, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) will discuss the issue at an open mike session being held in Salt Lake City Thursday night. The IETF's leadership became aware of the DMCA threat a few weeks ago, and they have contacted their attorneys as well as experts at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for advice. At issue is whether ongoing research in digital rights management or development of encryption protocols puts the organization at risk. "Our lawyers have cautioned us not to disregard the threat, but the likelihood of the IETF being challenged under DMCA is very small," says Scott Bradner, the IETF's external liaison and a director of the IETF's transport area. Bradner adds that the public image of a copyright holder that sued the IETF for trying to improve Internet security would be badly damaged. "There's a theoretical liability, but I don't believe there's an actual liability," Bradner adds. Passed in 1998, the much-maligned DMCA was a comprehensive reform of U.S. copyright law designed to take into account advances in digital communications. DMCA has provisions that allow the U.S. government to file criminal charges against individuals who circumvent copyright protection systems for commercial gain. DMCA also allows private lawsuits against individuals who investigate the circumvention of copyright protection systems. The IETF's digital rights management research - conducted by the group's companion Internet Research Task Force - is not investigating copyright protection systems. But "in the design of building good systems, we learn from breaking systems," admits Thomas Hardjono, co-chair of the digital rights management research group and a principal scientist with VeriSign. The research group is surveying work in digital rights management that is being done in R&D labs, other standards bodies and in industry groups to investigate the impact of these technologies on the IP network architecture. Launched six months ago, the research group has met twice. At this point, the IETF has no plans to shut down or scale back the digital rights management research effort. However, the IETF leadership is discussing changing the name of the group to lower its profile. John Klensin, chair of the IETF's Internet Architecture Board, which oversees the digital rights management research, says it's important for the IETF to do a threat analysis but it should continue with its work. "It's important to be very aware of these issues...and then to proceed because the alternative is paralysis," Klensin told the digital rights management research group at its meeting Tuesday. Another option is for the IETF to require companies that pitch their security technologies as potential standards to sign a disclaimer waiving their rights to DMCA claims, much as they already sign a disclaimer on intellectual property claims. "The DMCA could run the risk of really hurting the standards process by making people afraid to test and publish their research,'' says Cindy Cohn, legal director at the EFF. DMCA disclaimers "would restore confidence that the technologies that are being rolled out as standards have been thoroughly tested and vetted." Two recent, high-profile DMCA cases have caused anxiety among IETF participants and other network researchers: * In July, the FBI arrested Dmitry Sklyarov, a Russian computer science student, for an alleged violation of DMCA. Sklyarov delivered a speech in a Las Vegas hotel pointing out security holes in Adobe's eBooks software. * In November, Princeton University Professor Ed Felten challenged the DMCA on free speech grounds in federal district court, but the court dismissed the case. Felten and a team of researchers from Princeton University, Rice University and Xerox discovered security vulnerabilities in the digital watermark technology under development to protect music sold on the `Net. Two recording industry groups - the Recording Industry Association of America and the Secure Digital Music Initiative Foundation - threatened to file suit against Felten and his team if they published their research at a conference. After intense media scrutiny, the two groups allowed Felten to publish his work. Some members of the IETF community fear that because of these cases, the DMCA will have a chilling effect on security-related research. "Among academics and scientists in the security area, the level of concern is very high," Cohn says, pointing out that some security workshops will be held overseas next year because of DMCA. "Many foreign scientists will not publish their work because they don't want to get arrested." All contents copyright 1995-2001 Network World, Inc. http://www.nwfusion.com From tme@multicasttech.com Wed Dec 19 20:49:00 2001 From: tme@multicasttech.com (Marshall Eubanks) Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 15:49:00 -0500 Subject: [IETF-IDRM] [IDRM] LOC Public Comment Period Re-opens In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Part of the RIAA/HFA/MPAA licensing deal : http://www.loc.gov/copyright/newsnet/index.html Regards Marshall Eubanks T.M. 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