Jupiter said the event will provide a comprehensive overview of digital rights and copyright protection issues as well as educational seminars on both consumer media distribution and commercial information security.
“If you want to be innovative around what the Internet can do for content distribution — and it can do a lot compared to traditional media because it’s so flexible, cheap and instantaneous — then you need to include DRM,” conference chair Bill Rosenblatt said.
The conference features a mix of speeches, workshops and panel discussions on the fundamentals of protecting proprietary content, piracy trends, new developments in Digital Rights Management technologies.
Slated speakers and workshop leaders include William Krepick, president and CEO of Macrovision; William Pence, senior vice president and CTO of Napster; John Bruce, president and CEO of Authentica Inc.; and Rosenblatt, who serves as managing editor of DRM Watch in addition to chairing the conference.
Educational seminars will focus on topics such as mobile devices, integrating DRM, interoperability and compliance issues, peer-to-peer networks and audio fingerprinting and the ongoing MGM vs. Grokster battle currently under consideration in the U.S. Supreme Court.
