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alt="" height="85" width="75"></a>At the end
of last week, there was an interesting development
among ebook publishers. The International Digital
Publishing Forum (IDPF), which includes several
major publishers, issued an invitation to talk
about "Lightweight DRM." Current ebook Digital
Rights Management is anything but lightweight; the
protective ebook encryption is so heavy you can't
read a Kindle ebook on a Nook, for example. But
consumer unhappiness seems to be pushing a change.
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/19/3029793/epub-standards-body-lightweight-drm-ebooks">ePub
standards body proposes new 'lightweight' DRM
for ebook platform interoperability</a> (The
Verge/Bryan Bishop) "The new ePub DRM would
offer a standardized approach, providing enough
protection to deter casual file sharing without
causing so much hassle as to be inconvenient to
users. The proposal calls for a password-based
solution that would work on a device even if no
internet connection was present - or if the
ebook distributor themselves no longer existed."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.teleread.com/drm/ipdf-proposes-less-restrictive-drm-standard/">IDPF
proposes less-restrictive DRM standard</a>
(TeleRead/Chris Meadows) "The problem I see with
this idea is, who exactly is going to use it?
[Bill] Rosenblatt points to vendor lock-in as
one of the problems with current DRM
implementations, but from the point of view of
the <em>vendors</em> (who are the ones who
actually decide what DRM they use) that's a <em>feature</em>-exactly
the <em>opposite</em> of a problem. And up to
now, copyright holders have seen restrictiveness
of DRM as a feature as well. Who's going to make
them move to something lighter?"</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://idpf.org/epub-content-protection">EPUB
Lightweight Content Protection: Use cases
& requirements</a> (International Digital
Publishing Forum/Bill Rosenblatt) "Finally,
heavyweight DRM has generated significant
resistance from consumers and consumer
advocates, particularly in paid content business
models, and this resistance has increased over
time. Consumers object to intrusion (...), the
technical and user experience glitches that are
more likely to appear with more complex
technology, and restrictions on content usage
that correspond to usages of physical products
to which they are accustomed (or which should be
allowed by law)."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/05/e-books-may-take-a-page-out-of-digital-musics-book/">e-Books
may take a page out of digital music's book</a>
(Ars Technica/Megan Geuss) "It seems more people
will buy e-books if they can transfer them
between devices, or if DRM was easier to
understand. At a <a
href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/05/exercises-in-democracy-building-a-digital-public-library/">recent
conference</a> held by the Digital Public
Library of America, Internet Archive founder
Brewster Kahle answered an audience member who
asked 'what will it take for publishers to nix
DRM?' 'Wanting to have a business at the end of
the day?' Kahle answered sarcastically."</li>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Library
lending fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">The second
use case in the IDPF <a
href="http://idpf.org/epub-content-protection">statement
of requirements</a> outlines a process for
borrowing an ebook with lightweight DRM from a
library, reading it on one device, transferring it
to another device, and sharing it with a friend.
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