Unacceptable face of DRM

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The GSM Association is to continue to evaluate Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions for its members after a proposal from MPEG LA was met with dismay.

The GSM Association (

), the global trade association for more than 660 global mobile operators, is to continue to evaluate Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions for its members after a proposal from

, was met with dismay by the operator community.

Digital rights management technology (DRM) is key to the success of electronic media distribution systems now gaining popularity on computers, mobile and consumer electronics platforms

While MPEG LA is not related to any standards agency and is not an affiliate of any patent holder, as a company, it enables others to acquire patent rights necessary for a particular technology standard or platform from multiple patent holders in a single transaction as an alternative to negotiating a license with each of them.

MPEG LA licenses portfolios of many essential patents for the MPEG-2, IEEE 1394, DVBT, and AVC/H.264 standards. But its portfolio in question here is the OMA DRM 1.0 Patent Portfolio License.

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