Major Educational Publishers Adopt PLUS
Bill Rosenblatt,
DRM Watch,
Nov 26, 2008
According to this item, "three major educational publishers (McGraw-Hill, Pearson, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (part of Reed Elsevier)) have pledged to adopt the image licensing metadata standard by including PLUS term definitions in their standard licensing contracts and asking their image suppliers -- such as stock image agencies -- to embed PLUS metadata in all of their images within a year." The PLUS system employs a Glossary and Media Matrix (or media types) to populate a universal License Format. "This machine-readable data form ties the entire system together, providing a single, worldwide standard for describing licenses." What I wonder is where ContentGuard is in these licensing initiatives - the company says it basically owns the whole domain: is it going to sue someone, or is it licensing technologies to these agencies?
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