Mobile DRM Agreement to Close Soon

EETimes is reporting that the Open Mobile Alliance may soon settle on an agreement with Hollywood over DRM plaqued issues including royalties and implementation.

“Despite a mobile phone group’s dismay over a revised licensing fee for digital rights management, Willms Buhse, vice chairman of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), predicted at an industry forum here Wednesday (May 11) that “there will be an agreement soon.”

Noting that Microsoft is an OMA member, and recently sent three officials to a Paris meeting to discuss OMA’s DRM, Buhse said he sees the moves as Microsoft’s acknowledgement of OMA’s DRM. Microsoft is expected to drive its proprietary DRM in the PC and PDA market, but can’t ignore OMA’s DRM in the mobile phone market, he explained.”

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