Patent ID: 7860801

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: a customer interface at a rendering site, the customer interface including a digital work choosing input configured to receive, through human input at the rendering site via an interface at the rendering site, a chosen digital work for rendering at the rendering site; a rendering device at the rendering site, the rendering device being configured to obtain a representation of the chosen digital work from at least one repository holding digital works including the chosen digital work, and being configured to render the obtained representation, wherein the at least one repository is remote from the rendering site; a secure clearinghouse communicator configured to electronically send rights criteria to a remote clearinghouse remote from the rendering site, and configured to receive rights defining information from the clearinghouse, wherein the rights criteria include corresponding rights criteria corresponding to the chosen digital work, the corresponding rights criteria including a unique work identifier, and wherein the rights defining information is in response to the corresponding rights criteria and includes a set of links to web servers and a username/password set for use by the customer to access the chosen work; and an enable mechanism configured to enable the rendering device to render the obtained representation of the chosen digital work in accordance with the rights defining information received by the clearinghouse communicator in response to the corresponding rights criteria corresponding to the chosen digital work.