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Ball State Rolls Out HD in Digital Media Project
7/24/2007
Digital Rights Management
In addition, through the library's database, the system is set up to use Microsoft's Digital Rights Management (DRM) scheme to address security issues. Using the library's database and DRM, Ball State will be able to allow or deny access as needed. That means controls can be set so that the general public can access some video, and students and faculty alone, for example, can access other content.
Even more granular DRM controls are possible. For example, if a faculty member wants to show portions of a copyrighted video in class, Gordon's department can encode the content and make it available only to that professor for use in that class. "It's not for public consumption; it's just for [the instructor] to call up during his PowerPoint presentation in class," Gordon explained. Clicking on the link jumps to the on campus video servers when the encoded content is stored; permissions are recognized, and the content plays.
That kind of rights management simply isn't possible when physical copies of tapes are made and released.
Ball State currently has hundreds of hours of video content archived, and Gordon is in the process of adding thousands more. He said he plans to launch a campus-wide high-definition TV infrastructure at the university within the next eight to 12 months and to move to a completely tape-free video infrastructure within the next five to 10 years.
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Linda L. Briggs is a freelance writer based in San Diego, Calif.
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