This announcement is, as the author suggests, a bombshell - on several fronts. One front is the obvious: the mobile device industry is no longer banding together to keep Microsoft out of its back yard. On another front, it gives Microsoft leverage against proprietary formats being offered by Apple and Sony. But of greatest significance to educators: The OMA DRM is based on the open (and royalty free) Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) (read more about this here). Readers of OLDaily will have seen this coming following the announcement in January that a license was drafted under MPEG LA to cover implementations of OMA DRM 1.0 for mobile devices and content services. So what does it mean for ODRL? Hard to say - but it's probably not good.
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