This new listserv is an outgrowth of a workshop co-sponsored by CNI.
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At the Managing Digital Video workshop held in Atlanta, August 14-15, a
lot of discussion centered on digital rights management (DRM)
development to support the building and sharing of digital resource
collections. One of the action items from the Rights Language breakout
sessions was the creation of a list to discuss possible cooperative
development of a DRM implementation for R&E, and to enable workshop
participants to communicate about work being conducted in this area. We
had hoped to follow up with this action item in early September, but
events in New York and DC affected our progress. However, as the country
gets back to business, we're moving forward with the launch of the
Rights-L list.

Some of the first communications to this new list will concern work being
proposed as a collaboration between the ViDe VideoAccess Working Group,
and the Internet2 Video Middleware (VidMid) Video-on-Demand group. This
work is part of the recently announced NSF Middleware Initiative.

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Thank you,

Mairead Martin

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Ms. Mairead Martin                              maireadm@utk.edu
Director, Advanced Internet Technologies http://www.ait.utk.edu/
Office of Research & Information Technology Tel: 865.974.6454
The University of Tennessee Fax: 865.974.6508
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