RE: [rights] An effort to clear up the confusion over CG patent claims

["Karl F. Best" <karl.best@oasis-open.org>]

Bob:

The works of other OASIS TCs have had IPR claims made against them. In
particular you could take a look at SAML and ebXML CPPA. Each TC lists
its IPR claims on its web page.

</karl>
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Karl F. Best
OASIS - Director, Technical Operations
+1 978.667.5115 x206
karl.best@oasis-open.org  http://www.oasis-open.org

-----Original Message-----
From: DuCharme, Bob (LNG) [mailto:bob.ducharme@lexisnexis.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 3:15 PM
To: 'Gandee, Brad'; Rights (E-mail) (E-mail); 'Karl F. Best'
Subject: RE: [rights] An effort to clear up the confusion over CG
patent claims


Brad,

I really like most of what you wrote, until the end:

"Here we make it plain that there are royalty free licensing options
such as "a royalty free license to distribute and/or commercialize an
application that only uses XrML to attach or associate usage rights to
digital works such as content or services."

So an application that does not infringe on the patents will still
require ContentGuard's permission (i.e., a license) to use this OASIS
standard?

Karl,

Are there any other OASIS standards that require a particular
company's permission to use?

Bob DuCharme
Consulting Software Engineer, LexisNexis
Data Architecture, Editorial Systems and Content Engineering

-----Original Message-----
From: Gandee, Brad [mailto:Brad.Gandee@CONTENTGUARD.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 3:05 PM
To: Rights (E-mail) (E-mail)
Subject: [rights] An effort to clear up the confusion over CG patent
claims


All,

There has been some confusion, in part based on recent inaccurate
media coverage, of XrML's relationship with ContentGuard's IP claims.
ContentGuard's intellectual property consists of patents describing
DRM technology.  Only one of the many technologies described in the
patents is a rights language.  The connection between the patented
technologies and XrML is their common original source: ContentGuard.
XrML itself is not mentioned in those patents.  XrML represents an
instance of a rights language (and the best one created to date).  A
licensing agreement with ContentGuard is necessary for using the
technology described in the patents, not for using XrML. We believe
that our technology provides a superior platform upon which to build
an XrML-based DRM system.  We recognize the possibility that DRM
implementations using XrML may theoretically not infringe the patents.
We have also outlined much of this on our website at:

http://www.contentguard.com/PatentLicensing.asp

Here we make it plain that there are royalty free licensing options
such as "a royalty free license to distribute and/or commercialize an
application that only uses XrML to attach or associate usage rights to
digital works such as content or services."
Brad Gandee
XrML Standards Evangelist
ContentGuard
6500 Rock Spring Dr., Ste 110
Bethesda, MD 20817
(p) 240-694-1220
(c) 703-629-3414