Who is Who

Organisations

WIPO - World Intellectual Property Organisation

www.wipo.int

The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) is a special organisation within the UN, promoting the use and protection of works of the human spirit. Through its work, WIPO plays an important role in creating multilateral treaties to enhance protection of IP rights, patents, trademarks and designs as well as helping member states to implement the necessary infrastructure for effective protection of intellectual property.

OMA - The Open Mobile Alliance

www.openmobilealliance.org

OMA is an industry forum for developing market driven, interoperable mobile service enablers.

OMA was formed in June 2002 by nearly 200 companies including the world’s leading mobile operators, device and network suppliers, information technology companies and content and service providers.

OMA has currently created two standards regarding DRM: OMA DRM 1.0 and OMA DRM 2.0.

IEEE / LTSC
The Learning Technology Standards Comitee

ltsc.ieee.org

The IEEE Learning Technology Standards Comitee (LTSC) is chartered by the IEEE Computer Society Standards Activity Board to develop accredited technical standards, recommended practices, and guides for learning technology.

The learning technology standards within LTSC are developed via serveral working groups, which are:

• WG1 - Architecture & Reference Model,
• WG4 - Digital Right Expression Language,
• WG11 - Computer Managed Instruction,
• WG12 - Learning Objects Metadata,
• WG20 - Competency Definitions.

beuc - The European Consumers' Organisation

www.beuc.org

BEUC, the European Consumers' Organisation, is the Brussels based federation of 38 independent national consumer organisations from the EU, accession and EEA countries.

Projects

INDICARE - The INformed DIalogue about Consumer Acceptability of DRM Solutions in Europe

www.indicare.org

The INDICARE project is financially supported as an Accompanying Measure under the eContent Programme of the Directorate General Information Society of the European Commission (Reference: EDC - 53042 INDICARE /28609).
The overall goal of INDICARE is to raise awareness, help to reconcile heterogeneous interests of multiple players, and to support the emergence of a common European position with regard to consumer and user issues of Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions.

People

Dr. Norman Paskin
Director, International DOI Foundation

Dr. Willms Buhse
Director Products & Marketing, CoreMedia AG

Prof. Pamela Samuelson
School of Information Management and Systems
University of California at Berkeley

Per Vindeby
Product Manager DRM
Siemens AG, Germany

Johannes Mohn
Executive Vice President
Media Technology
Bertelsmann AG, Gütersloh

Niels Rump
Rightscom Ltd., UK
Senior Consultant

Barbara Fox
Senior Software Architect,
Cryptography and Digital Rights Management,
Microsoft Corporation