-Lot's of people spend up to 50 percent of their time and budget clearing the rights on intellectual property in order to produce new multimedia content," Lynne Spender, executive director of the Australian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association (AIMIA)told ZDNet Australia. -We will provide a guide for people so they spend less time and less money sorting out digital rights."
The AU$80,000 contract was won in open tender by a consortium including AIMIA; Gilbert and Tobin, a law company with a digital rights management (DRM) task force; IPR Systems; DRM software developers; and Securenet, which hosts the digital rights directory.
The guide will be Web-based and will be in sections with documents, case studies, tools and templates. -It will also look at the big picture, a philosophical look at DRM, what its value is and how it operates in the digital environment," Spender said.
Spender believes the guide will illustrate regulatory problems. -The strengths and weaknesses of the current copyright laws will be exposed," she said. -In the digital environment current copyright laws are cumbersome." According to Spender, the guide will describe how to get around them while still complying with them.
The proposed release date for the guide is the end of July.
