The participation of publishers, education content providers and authors is encouraged. Interfaces should provide transparent access for multimedia systems users to existing communications infrastructures such as digital broadcasting, cabled or wireless networks, and home and building buses. Developments in this area need to be coordinated with task 7.13 of domain 7, Technologies for Business Processes . Multimedia Objects Trading and Intellectual Property Rights Management - area 2 Objectives Develop, integrate and apply technologies in view of building an appropriate open environment for distribution, trading and use of digital multimedia objects. The work should build on existing projects to ensure convergence of objectives and should cooperate with the coordination mechanisms already in place for this sub-domain.
International cooperation is encouraged to secure the widest consensus possible.
Users, consumers issues, including privacy protection, should be carefully considered in all facets of the tasks. To develop, integrate and adapt technologies for IPR and trading management systems, including automatic licensing systems, payment systems and management of the remuneration flows that could have generic applicability in the global information society. The work of this task should take into account the potential social and societal impacts. To implement significant representative sectorial pilot applications demonstrating the effective use of technologies and systems for multimedia objects trading and IPR management. Such pilots should involve appropriate business models, implement collection of payment, identify and demonstrate benefits in order to achieve acceptability across a wide range of different sectors.