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Coral's DRM dream alive in Europe - March 4, 2008

While DRM interoperability largely remains a dream in the U.S. it could become the law in Europe, or at least strongly recommended by the authorities. The current Consultation on Creative Content Online being conducted by the European Commission--the quasi-executive arm of the European Union--has put mandatory interoperability front and center and spurred interest in the work of the Coral Consortium, the group of DRM developers, content owners and technology companies that, for the past four years, has been developing a technical and licensing framework for getting proprietary DRM systems to talk to each other.

Since Coral issued the final technical and licensing specs for its interoperability framework in October, its vision of domain-level management of DRM hasn't gained much traction in the U.S. But the European Commission proceeding gave the group a chance to make its pitch for pan-European adoption. It also received a strong shout out from Philips, a major player in the European technology industry, which used its own filing with the Commission explicitly to endorse the Coral framework.

The Commission said in a communique adopted March 1 that it hopes to make recommendations on DRM interoperability and other issues related to the distribution of content online to the European Parliament by the middle of 2008.



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