ContentGuard, provider of Digital Rights Language (DRL) technology and Contents Works, a market leader for e-Publishing services in Japan, entered a strategic alliance designed to provide interoperable DRM capabilities within Contents Works' digital publishing services in Japan.
Under the terms of the agreement, Contents Works and ContentGuard will collaborate to deploy eXtensible rights Markup Language (XrML) into the authoring and conversion workflows already supported by Contents Works' tools and services.
The licensing arrangement will allow Contents Works to incorporate ContentGuard's DRM technologies and underlying patents into its BookPark and other content services to provide full DRM support and enable a new level of electronic delivery capability in Japan.
"As the ePublishing market in Japan matures, it is important for publishers, distributors and consumers in the value chain to have consistent tools and systems to express and enforce rights associated with digital content," said Yoshitaka Kenno, CEO of Contents Works.
"Using XrML will enable content owners to assign rights to content to benefit all channel partners in the content-for-sale market and to protect internal corporate documents. XrML is on its way to become the Digital Rights Language standard, and we are delighted to work with ContentGuard to accelerate the adoption of interoperable DRM systems".
"ContentGuard's agreement with Contents Works establishes XrML's presence in the Japanese market and complements our strategy of promoting the use of XrML and licensing DRM technologies and patents," said Michael Miron, ContentGuard co-Chairman and CEO. "The characteristics of the Japanese content market, with its emphasis on comics, games and progressive delivery methods such as mobile systems, hold particular significance to our global strategy. Using XrML, Japanese rights holders can now work with Contents Works to benefit from interoperability in their DRM solutions."

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