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 and 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 or the OpenIPMP website.
topObjectlab, 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 www.sourceforge.net/projects/openipmp.
topObjectlab 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 http://www.crl.co.uk/projects/moses/index.htm.
topObjectlab principal and founder Chris Mollis was recently selected as a 2002 ‘Forty Under 40’ award recipient. Sponsored by New Jersey Business News, the award is given annually to forty young entrepreneurs and executives who have demonstrated unique leadership or innovation in their respective commercial fields.
topFounded in 1996, Objectlab is a software development and professional services company that specializes in delivering high impact technology solutions to the media and entertainment industries. The company has a tremendous amount of domain and technological expertise and has worked on some of the highest profile technology initiatives that have been undertaken in these industries. From content management and rights management to e-commerce and mission critical business-to-business applications, Objectlab has consistently delivered scalable and extensible solutions, on time and on budget.