SDMI Publishes Open Standard for Portable Devices; Joint Industry Initiative Accelerates Access to Digital Music.LOS LOS Length of stay, see there ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 13, 1999-- The Secure Digital Music Initiative Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) was a forum formed in late 1998, comprised of more than 200 IT, consumer electronics, security technology, ISP and recording industry companies, ostensibly with the purpose of developing technology specifications that protected the ("SDMI (Secure Digital Music Initiative) A set of rules for securely distributing digital music over the Internet. Announced in February 1999, it is backed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Sony, Warner, BMG, EMI and Universal, the top five ") today published its first specification, a voluntary, open standard that manufacturers can use to develop new portable devices, expected for the 1999 holiday season. With these new SDMI-compliant devices consumers will be able to play all "legacy" content, including copies of existing CDs and digital music files, as well as electronically distributed music in protected and unprotected formats. In the future, these devices will also play new music released in emerging, SDMI-compliant formats. The specification, adopted in draft by SDMI at its June June: see month. 23-25 meeting, underwent a final technical review and was adopted at a meeting in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. on July July: see month. 7-8. SDMI's members include more than 110 representatives of the music, consumer electronics and information technology industries. "The portable device specification required tremendous collaboration Working together on a project. See collaborative software. by all parties. This specification is the strongest example yet that the music and technology industries can work together to benefit consumers," said Leonardo Chiariglione Leonardo Chiariglione is an italian engineer, born in Almese (in the province of Turin, Piedmont). He is mostly known for his work in the areas of telecommunications and digital media. , executive director of SDMI. "The specification represents a forward-looking for·ward-look·ing adj. Concerned with or making provision for the future: forward-looking educators; a forward-looking corporate plan. Adj. 1. approach that will accelerate the growth of the rapidly emerging market for digital music by stimulating stim·u·late v. stim·u·lat·ed, stim·u·lat·ing, stim·u·lates v.tr. 1. To rouse to activity or heightened action, as by spurring or goading; excite. See Synonyms at provoke. 2. business and technology innovation and enabling exciting new consumer choices," concluded Jack Lacy, chairman of SDMI's Portable Device Working Group. SDMI-compliant portable devices will be introduced in two phases. Phase I begins now, with the adoption of the open standard. During Phase I, SDMI-compliant devices may accept music in all current formats, whether protected or unprotected. Phase II commences when a new screening technology is adopted to filter out pirated pi·rate n. 1. a. One who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without commission from a sovereign nation. b. A ship used for this purpose. 2. One who preys on others; a plunderer. 3. music. As Phase II begins, consumers will be able to easily upgrade their Phase I systems to enjoy newly released music in SDMI-compliant formats (as well as in existing unprotected formats). Throughout both phases consumers will be able to transfer music from their CD collections as well as from online sources. The specification describes requirements for SDMI-compliant portable devices as well as for applications (including software players and home-library software) and licensed compliant
tr.v. au·then·ti·cat·ed, au·then·ti·cat·ing, au·then·ti·cates To establish the authenticity of; prove genuine: a specialist who authenticated the antique samovar. communications between applications and LCMs and between LCMs and portable devices. Together, these provide a framework for music creators (artists, labels, or any other distributors) and manufacturers of applications and devices to develop and implement products for digital music distribution. ABOUT SDMI The Secure Digital Music Initiative brings together the worldwide recording industry and technology companies to develop an open, interoperable The ability for one system to communicate or work with another. See interoperability. architecture and specification for digital music security. The specification will answer consumer demand for convenient accessibility to quality digital music, enable copyright protection for artists' work, and enable technology and music companies to build successful businesses. Additional information about SDMI can be found at www.sdmi.org See .org. (networking) org - The top-level domain for organisations or individuals that don't fit any other top-level domain (national, com, edu, or gov). Though many have .org domains, it was never intended to be limited to non-profit organisations. RFC 1591. . -0- SDMI MEMBER COMPANY ROSTER: Adaptec - Milpitas, California AEI Music / Playmedia - Seattle, Washington American Federation of Musicians (AFM)- New York, New York American Federation of TV and Radio Artists (AFTRA) - New York, New York American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) - New York, New York America Online - Dulles, Virginia Audio Matrix - New York, New York Aris Technologies, Inc. - Cambridge, Massachusetts AT&T - Florham Park, New Jersey Audible, Inc. - Wayne, New Jersey Audio Explosion - San Francisco, California Audiohighway.com - Cupertino, California Audio Soft - Geneva, Switzerland Aureal Semiconductor, Inc. - Freemont, California Beatnik - San Mateo, California BIEM - Paris, France BMG Entertainment, Inc. - New York, New York Bose Corporation Breaker Tech. Ltd. - London, England Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) - New York, New York International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC) - Paris, France Canadian Audiotrack Services Corp. - Toronto CDDB - Berkeley, CA Cductive.com - New York, New York CD World Corp. - New York, New York Channelware, Inc. - Nepean, Ontario Compaq Computer Corp. - Houston, Texas Comverse InfoSys Limited - Tel Aviv, Israel Creative Technology Ltd. - Milpitas, California Diamond Multimedia - San Jose, California Dentsu, Inc. - Tokyo, Japan Deutsche Telekom - Bonn, Germany Digimarc - Lake Oswego, Oregon Digital on Demand - Carlsbad, California Digital Theater Systems, Inc. - Agoura Hills, California DIVX - Herndon, VA Dolby Laboratories, Inc. - San Francisco, California EAIC Corporation - (on behalf of Enso Audio Imaging) - Seattle, Washington EMI-Capitol Records - New York, New York EMusic.com, Inc. - Redwood City, California Encoding.com - Seattle, Washington Federation of Music Producers Japan (FMJP) - Tokyo, Japan Fraunhaufer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung e.V. for its Institut fuer Integrierte Schaltungen - Munich, Germany Geidankyo (Japan Council of Performers Rights Admin) - Tokyo, Japan Harry Fox Agency - New York, New York Hewlitt Packard - Colorado Springs, Colorado Hitachi Limited - Tokyo, Japan HMV Group - London, England International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) - London, England I2GO.com - Atlanta, Georgia IGUIDE - News America Digital Publishing, Inc. - Los Angeles, California Infineon Technologies - Munich, Germany Intertrust Technologies Corp. - Sunnyvale, California Iomega Corp. - Roy, Utah J. River, Inc. - Minneapolis, Minnesota Japan Digital Content (on behalf of Waveless Radio Consortium) - Tokyo, Japan JVWebb, Inc. - Houston, Texas Kent Ridge Digital Labs - Singapore LG Electronic - Seoul, Korea Liquid Audio - Redwood City, California Lucent Technologies - Atlanta, Georgia Music Copyright Operational Services, Ltd. (MCOS) - London, England M. Ken Co, LTD - Tokyo, Japan MAGEX - Montebello Vicentino, Italy Micronas Semidcondutors, Inc. - San Jose, California Macro Vision - Sunnyvale, California Matsushita - Tokyo, Japan MCY Music World, Inc. - New York, New York Memory Limited - Midlothian, UK Microsoft Corp. - Redmond, Washington Mitsubishi Corporation - Tokyo, Japan Multimedia Archives & Retrieval Systems London, England musicmaker.com (formerly The Music Connection Corporation) - Reston, Virginia MusicMarc - Jerusalem, Israel Music Producers Guild of America - Los Angeles, California National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM) - Marlton, New Jersey National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) - New York, New York National Semiconductor Corporation (on behalf of Mediamatics) - Santa Clara, California Nippon Telegraphic & Telephone Corp. - Tokyo, Japan Nokia - Tampere, Finland NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc. - Tokyo, Japan Philips Corp. North America - Briarcliff Manor, New York Pioneer North America, Inc. - Long Beach, California QPICT, Inc. - Saratoga, California RealNetworks, Inc. - Seattle, Washington Reciprocal, Inc. (Rights Exchange) - Buffalo, New York Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. (RIAA) - Washington, DC Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) - Tokyo, Japan RPK Security - Preverenges, Switzerland The SDMI Foundation, Inc. - Washington, DC Samsung Electronics - Seoul, Korea San Disk Corp. - Sunnyvale, California Sanyo North America Corp. - San Jose, California Seca (on behalf of Canal Plus) - Paris, France Sharp Corp. - Osaka, Japan Softlock Services Inc. - Rochester, NY Solana Technology Development Corp.- San Diego, California Sonic Solutions - Novato, California Sonopress (BMG Storage Media) - New York, New York Sony Corp. of America - New York, New York Sony Music Entertainment Inc. - New York, New York Sphere Multimedia Technologies Inc. - Hallandale, Florida Supertracks.com - Portland, Oregon ST & Hilo - Madrid, Spain STMicroelectronics, Inc. - Carrollton, Texas TDK Electronics Corp. - Port Washington, New York Texas Instruments - Dallas, Texas Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc. - Indianapolis, Indiana Tokyo Electron Device Ltd. - Tokyo, Japan Toshiba Corp. - Tokyo, Japan Touch Tunes Digital Jukebox, Inc. - Montreal, Canada Universal Music Group - Los Angeles, California Victor Company of Japan, Limited (JVC) - Yokohama, Japan Warner Music Group - Burbank, California Wave Systems Corp. - Lee, Massachusetts Yamaha Corporation - Hamamatsu, Japan 4C Entity (an LLC owned by Toshiba, Intel, Matsushita, and IBM) - Washington, DC |
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