RightsMarket Licenses Technology to National Trade Association.Business Editors CALGARY, Alberta--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 2000 RightsPublish Implemented on Behalf of Petroleum Services Association of Canada to Securely Distribute High Value, Subscription-based Studies RightsMarket Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). :RMKTF)(CDNX CDNX See Canadian Venture Exchange (CDNX). :RTS (Request To Send) An RS-232 signal sent from the transmitting station to the receiving station requesting permission to transmit. Contrast with CTS. 1. (operating system) RTS - run-time system. 2. .) is pleased to announce the licensing of its RightsPublish digital rights management and e-publishing technology to the Petroleum Services Association of Canada (PSAC PSAC Public Service Alliance of Canada PSAC Petroleum Services Association of Canada PSAC Plan for Software Aspects of Certification PSAC President's Scientific Advisory Committee PSAC Prospective Students Advisory Committee ), a trade association representing over 240 member companies involved in the oil service, supply and manufacturing industry throughout Canada and internationally. RightsPublish will facilitate PSAC's electronic distribution and fulfillment process, providing credit card transactions, digital installation and persistent document protection, as well as complete audit and statistical information. The product will enable the online sale and subscription of a number of high-value documents including the association's Annual Well Cost Study and Western Canada
Western Canada, commonly referred to as the West Activity Forecast. "The acceptance of our product in the areas of trade and professional associations is an important development for RightsMarket," said Lindsay Moir, President and Chief Executive Officer, RightsMarket. "There are thousands of associations across North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , which regularly publish information to their members, and we are pleased that PSAC is among the first to implement the RightsPublish solution. We look forward to pursuing this market in parallel with our business development initiatives in the publishing industry." Roger Soucy, President and 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. , Petroleum Services Association of Canada stated, "We look forward to working with RightsMarket to ensure that as content owners, we are taking every step possible to ensure authorized distribution of our studies. We strongly believe that subscribers to our studies want to remain compliant with the terms of purchase, and RightsMarket provides a way to make it very easy for existing and new customers to access our technical and market information." Soucy, who is also the former Calgary Chapter President of the Canadian Society of Association Executives stated, "We will also act as a reference customer for RightsMarket so that other trade associations, petroleum industry organizations and content providers can look to RightsMarket for their content distribution solutions." About the Petroleum Services Association of Canada The Petroleum Services Association of Canada (PSAC) is the national association of Canadian oilfield service, supply and manufacturing companies. The Association's mission, through effective presentation to government, industry and the public, is to protect, promote and pursue the interests of its members and to advocate standards, training, information dissemination and a code of practice. Amongst PSAC's largest member companies are BJ Services, Baker Hughes Baker Hughes NYSE: BHI is the world's third-largest oilfield services company behind Schlumberger & Halliburton, its main competitors. Baker Hughes provides the world's oil & gas industry with products and services for drilling, formation evaluation, completion and production. , Precision Drilling Precision Drilling Corporation (NYSE: PDS TSX: PD.UN) is the largest drilling rig contractors in Canada, also providing oil field rental and supplies. Operations expanded from 3 drilling rigs in 1984 to worldwide operations (Mexico, North Africa, Middle East, Kazakhstan, , Halliburton, Schlumberger and Weatherford. For more information, visit www.psac.ca. About RightsMarket Inc. RightsMarket Inc. (RTS: CDNX) is an enabler of digital text and audio publishing and secure document management solutions. Specializing in digital rights management, RightsMarket's principal product, RightsPublish, enables the protection, management, sale and distribution of digital content such as text, audio and video across the Internet onto PC's and wireless handheld devices. RightsPublish, is an end-to-end solution for protecting digital content on the Internet specific to the e-publishing sector, facilitating the commercial distribution of digital content by encrypting the property, authenticating users, enforcing the terms and conditions of use, offering an e-commerce mechanism for payment processing and creating a transaction log for reporting and billing. The company's technology partners include Adobe and Ansyr Technology, and recent solutions have been implemented for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation “Radio-Canada” redirects here. For the French language TV arm of the CBC, see Télévision de Radio-Canada. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the country’s national public radio and television broadcaster. , OutsideGuide.com and Fifth Era Knowledge. For more information, visit www.RightsMarket.com. For more information about RightsMarket please visit our website at www.RightsMarket.com. The Canadian Venture Exchange The Canadian Venture Exchange (CDNX) is now a defunct stock exchange having been acquired by the TSX Group in 2001 and renamed the TSX Venture Exchange. History of the Canadian Venture Exchange (CDNX) has neither approved nor disapproved of the information contained herein. |
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