IEC Publishes Standard for Home DRM Interoperability - IEC 62227
August 14, 2008 // Published as a news service by IHS
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The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) published a standard on digital rights permission codes for multimedia home server systems, which is aimed at helping pave the way for multimedia content to be used across different platforms legally, according to the IEC.
IEC 62227 - Multimedia home server systems - Digital rights permission code is designed to solve the issue of interoperability of digital rights management (DRM) technologies by helping to provide digital contents rights holders and consumers with a simplified permission code that extends across different DRMs.
The standard makes it possible to take complex permission information from rights holders for a wide variety of content, segmented by purpose and usage terms and simplify its components by converting them into a numerical code so that consumer devices such as mobile phones, household television receivers, set-top boxes, personal computers, music or game players and car navigation systems can decode them, said the IEC.
"IEC 62227 will help create and expand new business opportunities in the market segment of contents, distributions, services and devices," said Shuichi Matsumura, technical area manager of IEC Technical Committee 100/TA 8, which is developing the standard.
"This first edition of IEC 62227 should help all players in adopting the digital rights permission code and make everybody's life easier."
Source: International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).