IPR Systems
The IPR Vision
A Unique Approach IPR Systems approach to end-to-end Rights Management is unique because it does not enforce a specific business model, a level of protection or a particular price setting model on the markets or companies using it.
Many other Electronic Copyright Management Systems or Rights Management Systems impose a system of transaction-approval royalties or take a strong "Rights Enforcement" role, which dramatically reduces their applicability and attractiveness to many learning, reference and scientific applications. IPR Systems can integrate some of these products into its own systems (e.g. copy protection) where they may be desirable for specific projects, but we recognise that there are many environments in which they are not appropriate, or may not be appropriate for the future.
Our Strategy
IPR Systems' objective is to adopt world-class practice for undertaking leading research into developing the technology infrastructure for rights management.
Our research strategy includes the establishment of core activities and methodologies for three key application areas. These include:
* existing frameworks for the development of highly component-based software architectures and their applicability within a digital rights management environment. Such architectures support highly portable, migratable, and interoperable software components for open repository systems.
* specific rights management asset trading technologies, asset usage technologies, and asset creation technologies. This includes Rights Languages, trading protocols, and asset monitoring and protection.
* new and innovative usability interfaces and enterprise/business models, for managing all aspects of trading, using, and creating digital assets. This human factors and business factors research investigates flexible asset trade, creation and usage scenarios for IPR management. |
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IPR Systems has built a team of experts to deliver on its vision of Open Rights Managament Systems. The team is continuing to expand as IPR's work moves into new markets. |
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IPR SystemsCorporate Overview Unlocking Value in International Property
The "IPR" in the IPR Systems name stands for Intellectual Property Rights. IPR Systems Pty Ltd. was formed in August 1999, based on three years of research undertaken by Propagate Pty Ltd. into the issues, business models and technologies of rights management.
IPR Systems' co-founder and VP of Product Development, Peter Higgs, led that research and procured the rights to the Propagate R&D.
IPR Systems is commercialising this research into software solutions that manage intellectual property (IP) in a digital environment. The most pervasive digital environment is, of course, the internet, which if properly managed can unleash significant new markets and revenue opportunities for IP asset owners.
Instructional material, books, magazines, research papers, photographs, video, film or music - all of these IP types share the opportunities and challenges of the digital realm. Our solutions can be applied to all types of digital assets to manage their creation, trade and usage and thereby unlock new commercial value for asset owners.
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IPR SystemsProductsProperty Rights CopyAn Electronic Use System to manage the rights of educational print or digital copying and communicating
IPR Systems Property Rights Copy application reduces the complexities and costs of complying with the new rules of the Digital Copyright Amendment Act and allows an educational organisation to take charge of its usage of copyright material to best advantage.
RIGHTSCOPY
Allows an educational print shop, scanning centre, online learning service or Library to list, manage and report on the coursepacks and books that have been scanned, digitally stored and communicated in digital or printed form to meet organisational, staff and student requirements.
Manages Coursepacks
Allows a lecturer to easily select an existing coursepack held digitally to be reprinted or communicated digitally
# Reduces the cost and delays of re-scanning
# Reduces time and cost of entering essential meta data on the scanned coursepack
Allows identification and re-use of component material that has been scanned for one Coursepack into another Coursepack thereby reducing duplication of scanning, storage, tagging and reporting.
Manages The Rights
Provides a register of rights, licenses or permissions held by the educational institution including Statutory Licence, Fair Dealing exemption or explicit licence from a publisher. Allows the information to be captured once and then used across a single item or many items that are the subject of the agreements. Allows a simple method to apply for an Explicit License to communicate a work that would otherwise be in breach of the statutory licence.
Manages Usage
Records any online publication of scanned material to ensure it or another part of the same work is not used again within 14 days without specific license to do so. Ensures a University is not unwittingly in breach of the Statutory License guidelines for digital communication. Record and manage the copyright status of scanned material including out of copyright, subject to an explicit commercial license, owned by the University or Crown. RIGHTSCOPY can reduce or eliminate the likelihood of paying twice for the use of the same material.
Manages Reporting
Records and reports usage of material of scanned works as per the Equitable Remuneration reporting requirements on either a full time recording or sample recording basis. Enables departmental or course level billing or cost accounting. Ensures consistency of record keeping so standard usage and billing procedures can be developed and implemented. Simply and easily supply reports to CAL as required.
# RIGHTSCOPY: turn a costly copyright compliance problem into a business benefit. |
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ProductsLearning Property LOX facilitates the exchange of Learning Objects and components within and between institutions such as universities , schools, colleges anc corporations. LOX stores, promotes, trades and delivers components and the rights required for their direct use, adaptation or embedding in other learning modules. LOX complies with the specifications of the IMS Global Learning Consortium to enable interoperability with other learning object management systems.
Most learning instituitions are currently negotiating learning module exchange agreements between themselves and overseas partners. Such LOX-based exchange services have the potential to dramatically lower the costs and complexity of re-using learning components as well as providing a source of revenue from commercial (fee) licences to module developers.
The LOX Architecture (above) shows a number of functional modules. These modules include:
* Content Descriptions - LOs can be described using IMS Metadata
* Rights Offers - Various terms and conditions can be offered for each LO
* Rights Licenses - The acceptance of an Offer creates a formal Agreement between the parties
* License Payments - Handles the payment of fee-based LOs
* Royalty Payments - Handles the payments of royalties to rights holders
* Workflow Approval - LOs can be approved before becoming live on the system
* Reporting - Various financial and usage reports can be generated
LOX imports Learning Objects conformant to IMS Content Packaging and exports the Learning Object with embedded rights information using the Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) inside the Content Package. |
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