Publications and Presentations

The DRM Book

• Eberhard Becker; Willms Buhse; Dirk Günnewig; Niels Rump (Eds.). Digital Rights Management – Technological, Economic, Legal and Political Aspects. Springer, 2003. ISBN 3-540-40465-1

Selected Papers and Articles

2005-2006

• Ian S. Burnett, Niels Rump: Rights Management and MPEG-21. ISO Focus. May 2006
• Kate Grant (Ed.); Chris Barlas; Filippo Charaglione; Ed Hartley; Guy Hirson; Panos Kudumakis; Adam Lindsay; Iain Richardson; Niels Rump: Simplifying the Implementation of MPEG. British Standards Organisation, 2005. ISBN 0-580-46110-6
• Niels Rump, Chris Barlas. When “Playing” isn’t “playing”: inter-connecting different Rights Expression Languages (and other metadata systems). INDICARE. 2005

2000-2005

• Niels Rump, Chris Barlas. From couch potato to active consumer: potential impact of bi-directional Rights Expression Languages. INDICARE. 2004
• ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG. International Standard ISO/IEC 21000-11. Information Technology – Multimedia Framework – Part 11: Evaluation Methods for Persistent Association Technologies” 2004 (co-editor)
• Niels Rump. Can Digital Rights Management be Standardised? – An overview of DRM standardisation within MPEG. Published in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Digital Rights: Management, Protection, Standardization. 2004
• Niels Rump. Digital Rights Management. Definition, Aspects and Overview. In: E Becker; W. Buhse; D Günnewig; N Rump (Eds.), Digital Rights Management – Technological, Economic, Legal and Political Aspects. Springer, 2003. ISBN 3-540-40465-1
• ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG. International Standard ISO/IEC 21000-3. Information Technology – Multimedia Framework – Part 2: Digital Item Identification. 2002 (main editor)
• Gabriele Spenger, Niels Rump, Jürgen Herre, Christian Neubauer. MPEG-21 – What does it bring to Audio? Presented at the 111^th AES Convention New York, 2001
• Gabriele Spenger, Niels Rump, Jürgen Herre, Karlheinz Brandenburg. MPEG-21 – A Multimedia Framework for E-commerce and what does it bring to Audio? Presented at the 46^th International Scientific Colloquium of the Technical University of Ilmenau, Ilmenau. 2001
• ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG. Technical Report ISO/IEC 21000-1. Information Technology – Multimedia Framework – Part 1: Vision, Technologies and Strategy. 2001 (co-editor)
• Douglas Armati, Jack Lacy, Niels Rump, Talal Shamoon: Flexible and Robust IPMP Solutions Using the MPEG-4 IPMP Hooks. MPEG/M6443. La Baule, 2000

1996-1999

• Phil Wiser, Niels Rump. AESSC SC-06-04 — Activities on Digital Music Distribution. Presented the 17^th AES Conference, Florence, 1999
• Jack Lacy, Niels Rump, Talal Shamoon, Panos Kudumakis: MPEG-4 Intellectual Property Management & Protection Management & Protection (IPMP) Overview & Applications. Presented at the 17^th AES Conference, Florence, 1999
• Eric Allamanche, Karlheinz Brandenburg, Jürgen Herre, Karlheinz Brandenburg, Christian Neubauer, Niels Rump. Fraunhofer IIS’ response to the “Call for Proposals for Technology Contributions for LCM Acceptance” of the Secure Digital Music Initiative SDMI: “Robust Watermarking” and “Detection of Previously Compressed Content”. Presented to the Secure Digital Music Initiative, 1999
• Niels Rump, Eric Allamanche, Karlheinz Brandenburg, Jürgen Herre, Jürgen Koller, SDMI PDWG Technical Proposal: Source Coding & Content Scrambling. Presented to the Secure Digital Music Initiative, 1999
• Niels Rump. SDMI PDWG Technical Proposal: MPEG-4 IPMP. Presented to the Secure Digital Music Initiative, 1999
• ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG. International Standard ISO/IEC 14469-1. Information Technology – Coding of Moving Pictures and Audio – Part 1: Systems. 1998 (co-editor)
• ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG. Jack Lacy, Niels Rump. Talal Shamoon, Panos Kudumakis. MPEG-4 Intellectual Property Management and Protection Overview & Applications Document.
• ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG. Keith Hill, Niels Rump. Managing Intellectual Property Identification and Protection within MPEG-4. MPEG/N1918. Freiburg, 1998
• Niels Rump, Jürgen Herre, Karlheinz Brandenburg, Jürgen Koller. Legal Distribution of Music through the Internet. Presented at the 106^th AES Convention Munich. 1999
• Niels Rump, Jürgen Herre, Karlheinz Brandenburg, Jürgen Koller. “White Paper” on the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI). Erlangen. 1999
• Niels Rump. Protection of Intellectual Property Rights of Digital Multimedia Data: The Multimedia Protection Protocol. Contribution to the 7^th Call for Proposals of the Digital Audio-Visual Council DAVIC, Erlangen, 1997
• Jürgen Herre, Niels Rump. Copyright Protection of Multimedia Data: The “Multimedia Protection Protocol” (MMP). MPEG/M1947. Bristol. 1997
• Niels Rump. Copyright Protection of Multimedia Data: The Multimedia Protection Protocol (MMP). Presented at the 19^th International Convention on Sound Design. Karlsruhe. 1996

Selected Speeches and Panels

2006

• November 2006. Seminar on “Emerging Multimedia Standards” of the IET (formerly IEE), London: Digital Rights Management – Requirements, Industry Trends, Expected Future Standards.

2005

• November 2005. South Warwickshire Economic Development Team, Warwick: Demystifying Digital Rights Management.
• October 2005. Publishing Training Centre, London: Staying Within the Law – Copyright, the Internet and DRM.
• July 2005. MPEG-21 Seminar, Poznan: Digital Item Identification – how do we now what ‘it’ is?
• July 2005. Global Billing Associaton. London: Workshop: DRM and Billing
• July 2005. Mobile Content Conference. London: Understanding the Basics of DRM – explaining the complexities
• March 2005. The Mobile Music Forum, London: Empowering mobile music with DRM
• January 2005. 3^rd DRM Conference, Berlin: Tutorial: Technological Foundations of DRM
• January 2005. 3^rd DRM Conference, Berlin: Session Chairmanship: DRM, Innovation and Competition

2000-2004

• December 2004. Digital Entertainment Distribution Conference, London: Panel: Digital Rights Management: Delivering Content Securely
• September 2004. Workshop on Business Models for Mobile Music and DRM, Berlin: Mobile DRM
• September 2004. Information Security Solutions Europe Conference, Berlin: Digital rights management – overview and trends
• June 2004. 3^rd International Workshop for Technology, Economy, Social and Legal Aspects of Virtual Goods, Ilmenau: Managing Meaning – How standards help (keynote address)
• January 2004. Symposium “DRM und Alternativen”, Berlin: Technologie und Standards A video of this presentation is available in Real Media and in Windows Media format.
• May 2003. Digital Content Regulation & Piracy Conference, London: The Forgotten Elements of DRM: Content Identification and Content Description.
• May 2003. Mobile Content 2003 – Mobile DRM Workshop, London: The Role of DRM in the Content Value Chain.
• April 2003. Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society, London: Digitasation Awareness Day: DRM – and how others cope.
• April 2003. Publishing Training Centre, London: Staying Within the Law – Copyright, the Internet and DRM.
• November 2002. Conference on Mobile Digital Rights Management, London: Technical Challenges of Digital Rights Management
• September 2002. Copyright Law is Changing – The Implementation of the Copyright Directive; Theodore Goddard Seminar, London: How is the digital rights management business affected.
• June 2002. Digital Behaviour, Cologne: Technical Requirements for Content Protection.
• January 2002. 2^nd Digital Rights Management Conference, Berlin: Standardisation in the Area of Rights Management
• July 2001. Internet Digital Rights Management Research Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force IETF, London. MPEG-21: An Overview for IDRM
• April 2001. Digital Rights Management in Mobile Entertainment, Paris: Digital Rights Management in Peer-to-Peer Networks: Chances, Threats and Opportunities
• March 2001. Operators Workshop on Services and Applications of the UMTS Forum, Valencia: Digital Rights Management in the Wireless Environment.
• September 2000: British Standards Institution, London: MPEG-21 The Multimedia Framework.
• June 2000: British Standards Institution, London: Issues around “IP Management & Protection”
• May 2000: First Seminar of the MPEG-4 Industry Forum. Geneva: Managing and Protecting Implementations using MPEG-4 IPMP.
• March 2000: Second Seminar on Imaging Security and JPEG 2000, Tokyo: MPEG-4 IPMP and MPEG-7 IPMP (presentation given by Touradj Ebrahimi).
• March 2000: MPEG-21 Workshop, Noordwijkerhout: MPEG-4 IPMP and OCI and MPEG-7 IPMP.
• March 2000: MPEG-21 Workshop. Noordwijkerhout: The Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI).

1996-1999

• 107^th AES Convention, New York, October 1999: Session Chairman: Music, the Internet and Intellectual Property Rights
• 17^th AES Conference, Florence, September 1999: Session Chairman: Music Distribution via the Internet
• November 1999: Conference Musikvertrieb im Internet, Cologne: Management von Rechten im Digitalen Umfeld
• May 1999: Panel “Where there is a Will, there is Watermark” at the 106^th AES Convention, Munich: Watermarking: Some Remarks on Technology and Application Areas
• January 1999: Second pre-SDMI Meeting, Las Vegas: SDMI and AESSC SC-06-04
• November 1998: Fifth Imprimatur Consensus Forum, Munich: Management & Protection of Intellectual Property using the IPMP Framework of MPEG-4
• October 1998: Panel at Verein für Medienkultur Mikro, Berlin: Urheberrechte im Internet
• July 1998: Second International Seminar on Audio Coding at Fraunhofer IIS-A: Protection of Content Related Intellectual Property Rights.