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06.03.2003 - CONTENTGUARD AND OBJECTLAB COLLABORATE TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR MPEG-REL WITHIN OPENIPMP
ContentGuard and Objectlab today announced the companies have collaborated to enhance the open source project, OpenIPMP, with support for the forthcoming industry standard rights expression language, MPEG-REL. By making available source code for MPEG-REL interpretation and generation tools within the OpenIPMP framework, both companies hope to promote and drive the adoption of interoperable standards for Digital Rights Management (DRM).

The OpenIPMP project, sponsored by Objectlab, provides a reference platform to demonstrate the cutting-edge standards-based DRM technology. The MPEG-REL, based on ContentGuard’s XrML (eXtensible rights Markup Language), is expected for release as an ISO/IEC Standard later this year. Widespread adoption of MPEG-REL will allow seamless distribution of digital works between the diverse range of parties involved in digital content creation, distribution and consumption.

“We are very excited to be working with ContentGuard on this initiative. ContentGuard’s research and development in the area of digital rights languages is an indispensable contribution to the overall DRM community. The addition of MPEG-REL in OpenIPMP will demonstrate the state of the art with respect to a standardized rights expression language in a DRM system,” said Joe Rinaldi, Objectlab's Vice President of Product Development.

“Objectlab’s decision to include MPEG-REL support in OpenIPMP validates its commitment to promoting standards-based reference implementations for the software development community. OpenIPMP will help validate interoperable DRM standards and drive down the cost of experimentation required for the DRM market to mature,” said Eddie Chen, Vice President of Technology and Development at ContentGuard.

About the OpenIPMP Project
Sponsored by Objectlab, the OpenIPMP project provides an evolutionary path for the future of DRM, demonstrating the state of the art with respect to open standards based DRM technology. As such standards are just beginning to emerge, the project’s charter is to evolve as these standards mature. OpenIPMP’s evolution will not only continue to track to emerging standards, but is itself an integral contributor to the standards community. Working with MPEG, ISMA, MOSES, and other organizations, OpenIPMP is committed to the process, aiding in the validation of experimental standards, the design of new specifications, and in producing openly available reference implementation software.

For more information, please visit www.openipmp.com.

About Objectlab
Founded in 1996, Objectlab, LLC is a software development and services company specializing in delivering high impact technology solutions to the media and entertainment industries. The company has developed many strategic development relationships with Fortune 500 clients and has been involved in several high profile digital media management and distribution projects. Objectlab is based in New York, NY with offices in New Jersey, and is privately held and funded.

For more information, please visit www.objectlab.com.

About ContentGuard
ContentGuard, Inc. is driving the standard for interoperability in Digital Rights. The company’s broad foundation portfolio of DRM system patents, and its Rights Expression Language, XrML (eXtensible rights Markup Language) were originally developed at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). ContentGuard is driving the adoption of XrML as the industry standard for access and usage rights. XrML has been selected as the basis for the Moving Picture Expert’s Group (MPEG) and the Open eBook Forum (OeBF) Rights Expression Language, and has been contributed to the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems (OASIS) Rights Language Technical Committee. Launched in April 2000, ContentGuard conducts its operations in Bethesda, MD, and El Segundo, CA. The company is owned by Xerox Corporation (NYSE:XRX), with Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) holding a minority position.

For more information, please visit www.contentguard.com.

ContentGuard is a registered trademark of ContentGuard Holdings, Inc. All other company and product trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

01.30.2003 - Objectlab Announces Release of Open Source DRM / IPMP Solution Adhering to MPEG-4 and ISMA Standards
Objectlab, a leading software development and services company, announces the first open source release of OpenIPMP. OpenIPMP is an Intellectual Property Management and Protection (IPMP) solution for MPEG-4 that conforms to MPEG's IPMP "Hooks" specification. The project supports:

User Identification and Management
Content Identification and Management
Rights Management

The open source version of OpenIPMP is integrated into Cisco's open source MPEG-4 project, MPEG4IP, for encoding and decoding and uses other open source software for cryptography and deployment. The project implements a full PKI, utilizing the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) as the content identification scheme and the Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) as the Rights Expression Language. The software adheres to the Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA) 1.0 specifications and supports encoding and protecting content in MPEG-4 files so that the same file can be used for local and streamed playback.

For more information please visit the OpenIPMP project website at SourceForge: www.sourceforge.net/projects/openipmp or the OpenIPMP website.

7.26.2002 - Objectlab Announces Open Source DRM Solution for MPEG-4
Objectlab, a software development and services company based in NY, announces an open source initiative to implement the ISO/MPEG open standard for IPMP "Hooks" for MPEG-4, together with a full suite of supporting components. The project, named OpenIPMP, will be a fully open source DRM solution for MPEG-4 that adheres to MPEG's IPMP standards with the goal of promoting the use of open standards in the DRM market. Project OpenIPMP will include a Certificate Authority, Public Key Infrastructure, libraries for client/server secure XML-based messaging, local rights storage and a database schema for rights management. It will be engineered to interoperate with Cisco's open source MPEG-4 project and will rely on other open source projects for encoding, decoding, cryptography, etc. Project OpenIPMP also plans to implement IPMP "Extensions" to MPEG-4 when they become final, as well as MPEG-21 IPMP Systems concepts when they become final in 2003.

For more information please visit the OpenIPMP project website at Sourceforge: www.sourceforge.net/projects/openipmp.

6.11.2002 - Objectlab Joins Consortium Dedicated to the Delivery of Content Security for Embedded Platforms
Objectlab pledges software and implementation support for MOSES (MPEG Open Security for Embedded Systems), a consortium or European and Asian companies that are devoted to the standardization and trial implementation of MPEG-4 IPMP and DVB-CPCM content security specifications. MOSES aims to provide a technological kernel around which prototype applications will be built for testing a number of innovative business models. The end-to-end MPEG-4 secure infrastructure will be ported to devices other than the PC, addressing typical CE platforms based on open development suites, like WinCE and DVB-MHP. The work in this strategic area, where the European industry has proven particularly competitive, is expected to yield a number of technical benefits to the development, including the possibility to produce highly optimised code as well as a chance to exploit the hardware-based security features of embedded devices to deliver more tamper-resistance implementations.

For more information about MOSES and a list of member organizations, please visit the official MOSES website.