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DRM Toolkit for Consumer Devices
Marlin Joint Development Association to provide standard specifications for content management and protection for the consumer electronics industry
Distribution Source : PRNewswire

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/01-19-2005/0002862998&....

Date : Wednesday - January 19, 2005
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Intertrust Technologies, Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic), Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics, and Sony Corporation today announced the formation of the Marlin Joint Development Association (the "Marlin JDA") that will provide standard specifications for content management and protection for the consumer electronics industry. The Marlin JDA specifications will allow CE companies to build DRM clients for consumer devices that support popular content distribution modes in the Internet, broadcast, and mobile vertical market segments. For consumers, Marlin-based devices will mean that they can enjoy appropriately licensed content on any device they deem convenient, independent of how they originally obtained that content.

Convergence across consumer Internet, broadcast and mobile devices and services over the last few years has been constrained because of often conflicting proprietary DRM technologies and differing standards for each distribution mode, such as proprietary methods of music distribution to hard disk music players from the Internet. The Marlin JDA specifications will allow CE companies to use a single technology toolkit to build DRM functions into their devices to support commonly used content distribution modes, in a way that promotes interoperability while maximizing efficiency in the device architecture.





Marlin JDA specifications will be fully compatible with the outcome of the previously announced Coral initiative, which is aimed at developing a set of DRM-agnostic service protocols for interoperability between DRM systems and standards. Marlin-based devices will be able to interoperate with Coral- enabled DRM systems even if those systems do not use Marlin DRM components.

The Marlin JDA will also offer a Licensing and Compliance Program and a Community Source Program to permit adopters to obtain sample code modules and licenses for the specifications on a reasonable and non-discriminatory basis. The Marlin JDA plans to release version 1.0 along with the associated Community Source and Licensing and Compliance program in the summer 2005 time frame.

About Intertrust Technologies Corporation
Intertrust develops and licenses intellectual property for Digital Rights
Management (DRM) and trusted computing. The Company holds over 30 U.S. patents
and has approximately 85 patent applications pending worldwide. Intertrust's
patent portfolio covers software and hardware techniques that can be
implemented in a broad range of products that use DRM and trusted computing
technologies, including computer operating systems, digital media platforms,
web services, and enterprise infrastructure. Intertrust has research,
engineering, and IP groups focusing on developing and monetizing next-
generation technologies and inventions. More information about the company
can be found at http://www.intertrust.com .