User Rights Management Solution

Alex Knowles, DatalogicsRichard Nash, Sony DADC

Agenda

• About Datalogics & Sony DADC• Development and Benefits of URMS• System Overview • Use Cases• Availability• Roadmap

About Datalogics• Founded in 1967• Developed one of the first electronic publishing systems

in 1972; evolved into an enterprise solution still used today worldwide

• 6+ years developing and supporting eBook technologies

About Sony DADC• Founded in 1983, at the start of the optical storage media

revolution• 23 global media manufacturing, distribution, and digital

facilities• Over 900 million units shipped per year• 50 million files per year delivered to more than 500 DSPs

worldwide• Global customer services supporting over 25 languages

Sony DADC & User Rights Management• Industry standard for License Management

solutions with PC games and Home Entertainment• 1.1+ billion physical and digital units in the market• 350+ active User Rights Management customers

worldwide• 60+ digital business partners• 5+ million digital software licenses issued per

month (peak ~500 per second)

Marlin Trust Management Organization

The Marlin Trust Management Organization (MTMO) is the operational entity that grants commercial licenses for Marlin technology. It is established by the five Marlin founders – Intertrust, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, and Sony

The Marlin Developer Community (MDC) is the innovation engine. It continues to build on existing Marlin technologies in an open community. By encouraging developers to participate, the specifications are more robust, targeted, and secure.

Development of URMSHow?•Development began in 2013•Active member of Readium Foundation•Reviewed all available Sony resources and solutions•Hired leading industry experts

Benefits•Premium reading experience for consumers•Flexible business model•Content Protection built upon Marlin

Next Generation Product• Intuitive APIs support rapid client development• Simple user experience• Single sign-on

• Education friendly license options:

• User-to-user loans

• Reader groups

System OverviewURMS CGP

Server

Webstore

Content

Reader client

URMSSDKUser authentication

Payment processing

Auth token requestTransaction information

Content distribution

Entitlement synchronization

Use Case #1Buying an eBook• User “John” visits the eBook web

store• John selects and purchases an

eBook• The eBook is now available on his

bookshelf• He navigates with his reader device

to his bookshelf• In order to read the book, John

needs to register the eBook to the reader device (Download)

• John can now read the eBook without any further validation

EBOOK Webstore

Buy

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John’s bookshelf

John’s bookshelf

Use Case #2Common Bookshelf• John visits another bookstore• John selects & purchases an eBook• The eBook is now in his bookshelf,

along with the eBooks from the first bookstore

• He navigates with his reader device to his bookshelf

• In order to read the book, John needs to register the eBook to the reader device (Download)

• John can now read BOTH eBooks, without any further validation

EBOOK Webstore

Buy

Buy

Buy

Buy

Other eBOOK store

User can read both books within one app.

Use Case #3Preventing an unauthorized copy

• John wants to give a copy of the eBook to user “Bob”

• John “somehow” copies the eBook from his reader device to Bob’s reader device

• The URM (User Rights Management) prevents Bob from reading the eBook because it is not registered to the reader device

Copy

John’s eReader Bob’s eReader

Use Case #4Borrowing an eBook from a Library

• John visits the homepage of the Public Library via his reading device or a web browser

• John selects an eBook that he wants to borrow

• The book is available in John’s bookshelf for the lending period

• The Library is always the owner of the eBook and can always “enforce” the return

Public Library

John’s Bookshelf

Borrowed

Availability• Integrated with Readium EPUB 3 viewer

• Sony URMS gateway server is in full production• iOS and Android reading apps available from Immanens and

others are in development and will be available soon

Client SDK

iOS Production SDK

Android Production SDK

Windows Coming

Apple OS Coming

WebReading Evaluation SDK for Entitlement

Roadmap• Development of URMS Client SDK for Windows and

Mac OS X• Integration with Readium web browser• Working with several companies to develop reading

solutions

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