Bertelsmann's Digital World Services Offers Publishers a Powerful New Tool for Online Content Distribution With Digital Rights Management.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 7, 2000 Digital World Services (DWS DWS Dallas Wind Symphony (Dallas, TX) DWS Department of Workforce Services (Wyoming) DWS Division of Workforce Solutions (Wisconsin) DWS Driving While Suspended ), the digital rights management company of Bertelsmann AG Bertelsmann AG German media company. Beginning as a religious printer and publisher in 1835, the company grew steadily over the next century. Though virtually destroyed by Allied bombing in 1945, it recovered quickly after World War II. , today announced it is offering the publishing industry a powerful new tool for creating and exploiting online business opportunities. By taking advantage of the capabilities of an innovative DRM (1) (Digital Radio Mondiale) A digital audio broadcasting (DAB) system for AM radio in Europe. See HD Radio. (2) (Digital Rights M publishing system developed by DWS technology partner InterTrust Technologies InterTrust Technologies Corporation was founded by Victor Shear in 1990 to develop and market technologies for digital rights management (DRM). Its initial public offering (IPO) was in November 1999. It was purchased by Sony and Philips in November 2002. Corporation called FlyingMedia, Digital World Services will provide its clients with the ability to accelerate a variety of Internet publishing initiatives and explore exciting new market opportunities while fully maintaining copyright security. &uot;Digital World Services, the digital rights management company of Bertelsmann, the world's largest book and publishing company, is in a very strong position to help internal and external customers in the publishing industry move ahead with secure online distribution,&uot; noted Digital World Services CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Johann Butting. &uot;By freeing the publishing industry from concerns about protecting content rights and offering a wide array of flexible business models, we are leading the way into what we believe will be explosive growth in online content distribution.&uot; Bertelsmann's book and publishing divisions include Random House, and Europe's leading magazine and information publishers Gruner + Jahr Gruner + Jahr GmbH & Co. KG is the largest European printing and publishing firm. Its headquarters is in Baumwall, Hamburg, Germany. History Originally founded on Aug 1, 1948 as the Henri Nannen publishing house, Gruner + Jahr was created in 1965 from a merger by and Springer Verlag. Online Publishing for Books, Magazines and Business Information Created by Digital World Services' technology partner InterTrust, FlyingMedia consists of a packager and viewer software for published materials. It lets publishers create business rules, such as pricing, club memberships and more; associate them with published content, and packaged both into secure containers. It allows content providers total flexibility in creating customized document products and delivering them directly to consumers. Edmund J. Fish, EVP EVP Executive Vice President EVP EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation) Valve Position Sensor EVP Electronic Voice Phenomenon EVP Europäische Volkspartei (Germany) EVP Employee Value Proposition and chief business officer of InterTrust Technologies noted: &uot;FlyingMedia was designed as a key enabling technology in the emerging field of secure online content distribution. Given the global presence Bertelsmann has in all avenues of publishing worldwide, we are quite delighted that Digital World Services has confirmed the unique attributes of FlyingMedia technology and decided to incorporate into the services they can offer the publishing industry.&uot; About Digital World Services Digital World Services has been established to provide end-to-end solutions and services in all areas of digital rights management, enabling content providers to exercise complete control over digitally delivered products. The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and Hamburg, Germany company made its debut in January at MIDEM 2000, the music industry trade show in Cannes, France, where it demonstrated its capabilities to provide the music industry with a wide range of exciting distribution opportunities for entertainment. Digital World Services is a joint venture of three Bertelsmann divisions: BMG BMG Bundesministerium für Gesundheit (Germand: Federal Ministry for Health) BMG Be My Girl BMG Blue Man Group BMG Bertelsmann Music Group BMG Be My Guest BMG Browning Machine Gun BMG Bulk Metallic Glass Storage Media, Bertelsmann's CD manufacturing division; Bertelsmann Multimedia, which handles all of Bertelsmann's Internet activities, including AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. and Lycos in Europe; and the Bertelsmann Services Group, with expertise in distribution, financial clearing and call center operation. Digital World Services has selected InterTrust's digital rights management platform technology and Reciprocal Inc. for a sophisticated, scalable and global back-end service. |
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