Brief DRM Conference Report
April 13, 2004
I am at Bill Rosenblatt’s DRM conference, and it is a big hit. Excellent crowd, excellent content. I moderated a session on the e-publishing market, which went well.
I was very interested in a session on legal issues that ended up being mainly about compliance, and the need for DRM in the enterprise. One of the speakers, Nick Ackerman from the law firm Dorsey & Whitney, made some excellent points. I was especially glad to hear him not define compliance narrowly, as in just Sarbanes-Oxley or just HIPAA. He made the point that compliance is an enterprise-wide problem, requiring an enterprise-wide solution, i.e., DRM.
George Everhart, CEO of DRM vendor Sealed Media, then took this a step further, saying that compliance should be viewed not as the final goal for an enterprise DRM strategy, but as the catalyst for a broader “information lifecycle management policy.” This has DRM cozying up to records management in some ways, but also suggests that organizations need to look at all organizational information—and develop policies for all of it.
Posted by Bill Trippe at April 13, 2004 4:58 PM
