User-defined electronic stores for marketing digital rights licenses
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1. A method for marketing license rights in digital media, the method comprising:
- providing a library of digital media for which users can purchase individual digital media licenses;
hosting a plurality of online user-defined stores, with each online user-defined store offering a subset of the digital media in the library of digital media and associated with a user account; and
allocating a credit to a user account based on a-purchase of a digital media license, wherein the purchase is related to an online user-defined store associated with the user account.
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Abstract
Systems and techniques for marketing license rights in digital media involve providing a library of digital media for which users can purchase individual digital media licenses and hosting multiple online user-defined stores. Each online user-defined store offers a subset of the digital media in the library of digital media and is associated with a user account. A credit is allocated to a user account based on a purchase of a digital media license if the purchase is related to an online user-defined store associated with the user account.
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1. A method for marketing license rights in digital media, the method comprising:
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providing a library of digital media for which users can purchase individual digital media licenses;
hosting a plurality of online user-defined stores, with each online user-defined store offering a subset of the digital media in the library of digital media and associated with a user account; and
allocating a credit to a user account based on a-purchase of a digital media license, wherein the purchase is related to an online user-defined store associated with the user account. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for marketing license rights in digital media, the method comprising:
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providing a library of digital media for which users can purchase individual digital media licenses;
defining a template for online user-defined stores for use in offering digital media licenses to selected digital media in the library of digital media;
receiving, from a particular user, a selection of a plurality of digital media from the library of digital media; and
generating an online user-defined store using the template and the selection of the plurality of digital media, wherein the online user-defined store is accessible to a plurality of users for purchasing digital media licenses to digital media included in the plurality of digital media selected by the particular user. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. An article comprising a machine-readable medium storing instructions for causing data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:
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providing access to a library of digital media for which users can purchase individual digital media licenses;
defining a template for online user-defined stores for use in offering digital media licenses to selected digital media in the library of digital media;
receiving, from a particular user, a selection of a plurality of digital media from the library of digital media; and
generating an online user-defined store using the template and the selection of the plurality of digital media, wherein the online user-defined store is accessible to a plurality of users for purchasing digital media licenses to digital media included in the plurality of digital media selected by the particular user. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27)
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