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COPEARMS Project Summary

COPEARMS BUSINESS OFFER

D. Spaey, Bureau van Dijk, Brussels

ELECTRONIC RIGHTS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

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WHAT IS COPEARMS? COPEARMS groups experts specialised in the consulting and management of Electronic Rights Management Systems (ERMS). It originates from the Copearms ESPRIT project whose main objective was to push ERMS interoperability and security.

ERMS designates any information technology system or tool that provides apropriate technical mechanisms to protect Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) attached with multimedia documents, or to mediate access to digital resources according to specified rights.

ERMS extends the concept of Electronic Copyright Management System (ECMS).


CURRENT IMPLEMENTATION OF COPEARMS SERVICES
Implementation of an ERMS allowing users to access databases of textile images (artistic heritage images and marketable images) –
The TISSUS Esprit project    http://tissus.selisa.fr

Three pilot applications of an industrial low-cost solution implementing IPR management based on the CITED model http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/p5/erms.htm. The user pilots concern a library application, a teletraining one and a marketing CD-ROM one –
The COPYSMART Esprit project    http://www.arttic.com/projects/copysmart/

Design of an ERMS allowing to access databases with maps and associated materials (artistic heritage images) related to the history of Venice –
The VENIVA Esprit project    http://www.tin.it/veniva/veniva.html

Intelligent multimedia brokerage service using ATM networks and interfacing suppliers and customers (mainly SMEs) of copyrighted information in the publishing area –
The MULTIMEDIATOR ACTS project    http://www.uk.infowin.org/ACTS/RUS/PROJECTS/ac096.htm

Development of standard copyright mechanisms to monitor the usage of digital products (in particular video services) –
The TALISMAN ACTS project    http://www.tele.ucl.ac.be/TALISMAN/index.html#3

Demonstration of a commercial package offering educational multimedia material in a form allowing the end-user to customise it according to its needs –
The EUROPE MMM TELEMATICS project    http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/EuropeMMM

Implementation of a commercial service offering images form European libraries and museums. Design and implementation of an ERMS for this service –
The ELISE II TELEMATICS project    http://severn.dmu.ac.uk/elise/

Delivery of multimedia educational software on the Internet. ERMS training and fast protopyping of ERMS software tools –
The ERMES Esprit project    http://www.cordis.lu/esprit/src/ep24111.htm


FOR WHOM IS COPEARMS SUITABLE? Any operator envisaging to implement, or currently implementing an ERMS. I.e. any publisher or distributor of valued digital information, under the following conditions:

Access to the information being restricted to authorised users

Level of security in function of various parameters (e.g. value of assets, type of market)

Usage being authorised in function of what the user has paid for (subscription fees with or without pay per use system)

Possibly also:

  • Reporting to the information provider on the effective use of the information (statistics)

  • On-line renewal of credits/authorised uses

  • Link with a TTP or an electronic payment service


HOW DOES COPEARMS INTERVENE?

Three Ways of Intervening table


WHAT is COPEARMS ADDED VALUE? Assets Three years Experience in providing the technology and services

Expertise in various services areas: business, legal, security, technical

Validated Technology - CopySmart - already implemented in several applications

Validated Methodology based on models and check-lists to profile the customers requirements

Main benefits

Cost and Time savings in integrating the ERMS in applications, from the earliest stages of design

Making the ERMS more viable by taking account of business, legal, technical and security context


COPEARMS TARGETED CUSTOMERS Publishers of electronic information, on-line / off-line: books, news, photos, multimedia works, artistic/cultural heritage

Service Providers offering contents: telecom operators, cable TV operators, broadcasters

R&D projects, in preparation/starting, from the ESPRIT, ACTS, Telematic Applications Programmes

Fees-collecting societies needing interoperable systems (to consistently collect exploitation data)

Service providers acting as intermediaries (to regulate & secure Distributed Program Management Information


WHAT DOES COPEARMS OFFER?
COPEARMS offer can be bought as a whole (technology + 4 services) or piece by piece up to the customer needs.


From EURITIS:

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http://webpro.isegroup.com/euritis/

Engineering Services Copy Smart Suite

(on-line IPR management, IPR local enforcement)

Assistance to the Design,

Implementation & Operation of an

ERMS

CopySmart Trusted Server

CopySmart Trusted Administrator

CopySmart Secured Device

Card Reader & Smart Cards

EURITIS offers a full range of professional services for customers wanting to design and deploy Electronic Rights Management Systems (ERMS) and public-key infrastructures (PKI)

With the collaboration of COPEARMS experts, EURITIS provides dedicated expertise and tools to assist in the design, implementation and support of ERMS solutions so that it is optimised for customer's business environments and it is interoperable with other ERMS solutions that comply with COPEARMS or IMPRIMATUR Reference Models.

EURITIS's services include:

  * Training in ERMS engineering (1 day at least)

  * Requirement analysis (3 days at least)

  * Risk/Cost analysis (4 days at least)

  * Fast prototyping of ERMS services having priority (15 days at least)

  * Assistance to ERMS deployment (depends on the amount of ERMS services to be deployed)


From Bureau van Dijk:

 

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Business Requirements Analysis by Mapping: Cost Benefit Analysis of ERMS Implementation by Assessing:
Agents, Information, Rights,

Money Flows,

Contracts, Threats & Security

Cost Savings, Increased

Turnover, Investments,

Operation Costs

The typical assistance from Bureau van Dijk consists of identifying, analysing & reporting on:

  * the business requirements of the Customer:

        - on average 7 man-days of Bureau van Dijk consultant are required of which 2 in meeting with the customer

  * the cost-benefit items:

       - on average 5 man-days of Bureau van Dijk consultant are requied of which 2 in meeting with the customer

The typical assistance accounts for a total of 12 man-days rated at 750 EURO (plus travel costs), i.e. 9,000 EURO


From CRID:

 

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http://www.droit.fundp.ac.be/crid/crid.html

Advice on ERMS Implementation Advice on ERMS Operation
Legal Acceptance of Digital Documents

IPR Issues

Privacy

Consumer Protection

Electronic Payment

Liability of Actors

Legal Protection of ERMS

International Private Law

The assistance from CRID consists of part or all of the following items:

  * Overall overview of the legal issues raised by the project (5 man-days)

  * Help to design the technology from a legal point of view (10 man-days)

  * Drafting relevant contracts necessary for the project (3 man-days)

  * Tailor-made analysis of legal issues and of solutions incl. drafting of contracts (20 man-days)

The typical assistance accounts for a total of 20 man-days rated at 400 EURO (plus travel costs), i.e. 8,000 EURO


From ONERA:

 

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http://www.cert.fr

Advice on Security

Preliminary Risk Analysis

Selection of Security Objectives, Requirements, Function, Assurance

Audit of Existing Security

Assistance in Protection Methods

Ensuring Consistency of ERMS Protection Profile with Business Objectives

Consultancy in Information Technology Security:

  * Selection and integration of security requirements in the design or the definition of information systems, according to the threats and to the environment

  * Interpretation of legal needs and contracts in security requirements

  * Audit of system design

  * Specific solutions (cryptographic services, confinement, watermarking,...)

  * Building "Security Targets" and "Protection Profiles"

The assistance from ONERA depends on the complexity of the system and on the required involvement.  It may include one or several items of the above list. A typical assistance accounts for a total of 12 man-days (plus travel costs), i.e. 9,000 EURO


HOW TO GET IN TOUCH?
  • Contact either

  • Fill in our Inquiry on Users' Involvement in ERMS - to be found on this Web Site

  • Have a first face-to-face Contact with EURITIS, Bureau van Dijk or both
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