Description

ContentGuard, Inc. is driving the standard for interoperability in Digital Rights Management (DRM). Its Digital Rights Language, XrML (eXtensible rights Markup Language), provides a universal method for managing rights and conditions associated with digital content and Web services access.

Based on years of research, XrML is currently the only Rights Language being used in working DRM solutions, including DRM solutions from Microsoft Corporation. 

Product Highlights

• XrML can be used in content-centric as well as service-based business models 
• Rights and conditions can be securely assigned at varying levels of granularity, to individuals as well as groups of individuals, and with authentication of the parties 
• Grants/licenses can be interpreted and enforced by the client-side application (viewers, players, etc.) 
• Used in either single-tier or multi-tier channels of distribution, with the downstream rights and conditions assigned at any level 
• Extensible and fully compliant with XML namespaces using XML schema technology 
• Leverages XML standards such as XSLT and XPath 
• Signature and XML Encryption used for authentication and protection of the rights expressions 
• Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (RAND) licensing