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Digitization and DRM at Ball State
1/23/2008
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 plans to launch a campus-wide high-definition TV infrastructure at the university within the next two to six months and to move to a completely tape-free video infrastructure within the next five to ten years.
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Linda L. Briggs is a freelance writer based in San Diego, Calif.
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