Re: Watermarking [Re: Campaign for position of chair and mandate to close this community group]

On 1/13/2014 7:55 PM, Mark Watson wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Duncan Bayne <dhgbayne@fastmail.fm 
> <mailto:dhgbayne@fastmail.fm>> wrote:
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>     On Mon, Jan 13, 2014, at 04:38 PM, Mark Watson wrote:
>     > Who is that question to ? I certainly have no idea of the answer
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>     > except that watermaking alone doesn't mean the requirements of
>     any of our
>     > existing content licenses.
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>     ... which was sort of my point.  Discussion of watermarking etc. is
>     missing the *underlying* cause of the friction, which is that (as I
>     understand it) those licenses positively *require* non-user-modifiable
>     client components.
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>     Actually, that's an assumption on my part.
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>     Is it possible for you to post the relevant sections of the content
>     licenses to the list?
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> There are many such contracts and they are confidential, so 
> unfortunately I can't post them.
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>      It doesn't make sense to discuss potential
>     solutions to requirements if those requirements aren't clear.
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> As far as I understand, the way things work today is that it is the 
> DRM vendors who take on the task of creating solutions that meet the 
> requirements of the studios and of getting buy-in from the studios 
> that their solutions do indeed meet the requirements. You can look, 
> for example, at the PlayReady robustness rules for an example of the 
> result: http://www.microsoft.com/playready/licensing/compliance/
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> Realistically, I don't think you will get studio requirements posted 
> publicly, but that's not a question for me.

Do you know anyone that I could ask - in terms of getting these 
requirements posted publicly?

If not, do you know anyone who probably knows someone else that I could ask?

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> So, the DRM vendors have solved the problem of creating solutions that 
> meet studio requirements and what we are trying to do with EME is 
> provide a clean API to integrate these solutions with the HTML Media 
> Element. What we're not trying to do is standardize a solution to the 
> studio requirements. That would be rather ambitious, I feel.
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> ...Mark
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