Sony Develops Digital Content Rights Management, Distribution System
March 29, 2001 (TOKYO) -- Sony Corp. announced it has developed OpenMG Light, a system to manage and distribute copyrights for digital content for mobile devices.
Sony has developed the new system based on OpenMG , its existing system to protect copyrights of music data for PCs.
OpenMG Light is a server/client system to manage and distribute copyrights. Sony divided the function of OpenMG copyright protection system into OpenMG Light Server System for distributing digital contents, and OpenMG Light Client software for mobile devices to download contents from the Internet, and play them.
The major electronics company said it has realized a highly reliable copyright management system, allowing it to be integrated into mobile devices such as cellular phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) by adopting a smaller-scale software program for OpenMG Light Client and thus reduce the required processing.
Sony plans to offer the system to telecom carriers, music labels and related industries and companies.
