IBM ON MONDAY will release Version 2 of its EMMS digital rights management software, which includes the ability to protect
digital content of any file type, company officials said.
EMMS 2 is the evolution of EMMS (Electronic Media Management System), software designed for electronic media distribution
that originally protected music files. For instance, with the previous version of EMMS, a company had the ability to make
a song downloadable and then automatically expire after the user played it a specified number of times.
"We've extended EMMS to include all file types," said Brett MacIntyre, vice president of Armonk, N.Y-based IBM's content
and information integration software group.
To that extent, EMMS 2 can protect audio, text, image, and video files, as well as other formats, including Adobe PDF and
Open-eBook, IBM said.
MacIntyre continued that IBM more tightly integrated EMMS with its other content management-related technologies Content
Management Server, DB2, and middleware components such as WebSphere and the VideoCharger, for streaming video. EMMS 2 also
supports Microsoft's Windows Media Player.
Furthermore, IBM beefed up support for devices so that EMMS can be used with PCs, PDAs (personal digital assistants), CDs,
and kiosks.
The goal of EMMS, MacIntyre added, is to align digital rights management with content management.
"Digital rights management used to be a separate thought," MacIntyre said.
EMMS protects content by ensuring that only authorized users have access to the material. MacIntyre pointed to the sharing
of X-rays among hospitals as an example. With EMMS, hospitals can ensure that when they share x-rays with another hospital
or doctor that doctor won't be able to share the x-ray with anyone else without necessary permission.
EMMS Version 2 will be available at the end of this month.
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