Patent ID: 8429036

Claim:
A method for providing digital media content with an embedded environmental impact data value, the method comprising: a programmable device determining at least one of an amount of energy used in creating a first digital multimedia item comprising music data, and a type of energy used in creating the first digital multimedia item; the programmable device calculating a first environmental impact value for the first digital multimedia item as a function of the determined at least one of the amount of energy used in creating the first digital multimedia item and the type of energy used in creating the first digital multimedia item, by at least one of: measuring a total amount of energy used by each of at least one musical instrument to create the music data; and measuring a total amount of energy used by each of at least one content creator in creating first digital multimedia item music content data; the programmable device encoding the determined first environmental impact value; and the programmable device embedding the encoded first environmental impact value within digital data of the first digital multimedia item for decoding by a receiver of the first digital multimedia item.