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Interoperable digital rights management based on the MPEG Extensible Middleware

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This paper describes an interoperable Digital Rights Management architecture promoted by the MPEG standardization group in its new standard known as MPEG-M or MPEG Extensible Middleware (MXM). The goal of this standard is to promote the packaging and reusability of MPEG technologies, and for this it specifies a software middleware platform and a complete set of APIs and protocols. These APIs allow uniformly handling digital content and developing generic multimedia applications, through a set of modules communicated with standard protocols. The MXM standard provides the necessary mechanisms to digitally manage the rights over Intellectual Property, the tools to protect the media and the means to grant the rights enforcement, besides a rich set of libraries to reproduce the content.

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  1. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    Víctor Rodríguez Doncel & Jaime Delgado

  2. CEDEO.net, Torino, Italy

    Filippo Chiariglione

  3. TELECOM and Management SudParis, 91011, Évry Cedex, France

    Marius Preda

  4. University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria

    Christian Timmerer

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Rodríguez Doncel, V., Delgado, J., Chiariglione, F. et al. Interoperable digital rights management based on the MPEG Extensible Middleware. Multimed Tools Appl 53, 303–318 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-010-0513-3

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