System and method for allowing creators, artsists, and owners to protect and profit from content
First Claim
1. A method for protecting and profiting from digital content, comprising:
- allowing a user to define default rights, allowing a user to select a digital rights management protocol, and applying the user'"'"'s chosen rights and digital rights management protocol to digital content.
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Abstract
The present invention offers novel and superior means for protecting and profiting from digital content. The rights-centric, creator-centric digital rights management application will lead to greater revenue and rights for artists, and a new era of creator'"'"'s entrepreneurship, as opposed to the dominant aggregator'"'"'s entrepreneurship. The present invention offers a simple interface for creators, artists, users, and owners to define rights, select from a plurality of DRM options, advertising options, watermarking options, thumbnailing options, syndication options, and publish, share, sell, and distribute their content in a plurality of manners. This invention has far-ranging ramifications, as it causes DRM providers, device manufacturers, web companies, social networks, and content marketplaces to more directly compete with one-another to provide the creator and content owner the best compensation for their work. Creators can bypass the traditional and new middlemen, define their rights, sell their content, and enhance profits.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for protecting and profiting from digital content, comprising:
- allowing a user to define default rights, allowing a user to select a digital rights management protocol, and applying the user'"'"'s chosen rights and digital rights management protocol to digital content.
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19. A method for aggregating content and building digital content marketplaces by offering online and/or seeding the world with a software application that provides users/creators/owners of content a full spectrum of digital rights management options, watermarking options, and thumbnailing options, and acts as a gatekeeper to different marketplaces selected by the users/creators/owners.
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20. A method for creating a marketplace for DRM protocols wherein individual creators are presented with a rights management application that allows them to choose from a list of digital rights management options, and wherein DRM service providers and device manufacturers compete for the right to protect and let content owners and creators profit from their content.
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