Lausanne press release

Lausanne, Switzerland, 4 May 2008 – The eighteenth General Assembly (GA18) of the international Digital Media Project (DMP), hosted by EPFL, has successfully concluded its activities today approving a new working draft of its Interoperable Digital Rights Management (DRM) Platform (IDP) that extends the current version 3.1 (IDP-3.1) and includes the Chillout® reference implementation released as Open Source Software under the Mozilla Public Licence V.1.1.

DMP is now engaged in a major project called “WIM TV trial at Beijing Olympics”. The trial will offer the opportunity for creators to have their user-generated video content streamed to trial participants using a digital representation of a Creative Commons licence.

DMP is also committed to comply with its mission of contributing the result of its standardisation efforts to formal standards organisations.

The next DMP General Assembly (GA17) will be held on 14-16 July 2008 inTurin, IT. The main goals for that meeting will be to finalise IDP-3.2, test the WIM TV trial platform, promote its technologies and solutions to other standards bodies and continue working with other organisations.

The Digital Media Project was chartered as a non-profit organisation on 1 December 2003 in Geneva, Switzerland, continuing the visionary work of the Digital Media Manifesto. Its mission is to promote the successful development, deployment, and use of digital media, while safeguarding the rights of creators and rights holders to exploit their works, the wishes of end users to enjoy fully the benefits of digital media, and the interests of value-chain players providing products and services.

The DMP’s Board of Directors is: Marina Bosi (MPEG LA, LLC, USA), Leonardo Chiariglione (CEDEO.net, Italy), Marc Gauvin (Sociedad Digital de Autores y Editores, Spain), Jinwoo Hong (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea) and Tiejun Huang (Peking University, China).

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Further inquiries, please contact:

Leonardo Chiariglione

President, Digital Media Project

Phone: +39 011 935 04 61

Email: leonardo@chiariglione.org