Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ European Commission Formalizes Concerns over ContentGuard's New Ownership Structure

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Nothing we haven't noted in these pages before, but worth flagging all the same. "The European Union issued a formal and confidential Statement of Objections last Friday to Microsoft and Time Warner concerning their joint investment in ContentGuard." ContentGuard owns the XrML digital rights specification (which has become, respectively, an MPEG and ISO) and intends to license any use of a language to represent digital rights.

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