Patent ID: 8214295

Claim:
An internet-enabled server for enabling peer-policing for copyright compliance and enforcement, the server having a processor and a memory, and being connected to a first client device that is displaying a first work of authorship, the memory storing instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform the steps of: sending license terms and payment information to the first user at the first client device; receiving assent to the license terms and payment from the first user at the first client device; creating a license record corresponding to said first work of authorship and including a link to said first work of authorship; providing, to the first user at the first client device, data including a link to the license record; receiving, from a second user at a second client device, a request for the license record, via said link, from within a second work of authorship that includes said first work of authorship; sending, in response to the request, the license record corresponding to the first work of authorship.