Protection of Digital Information
UC Berkeley Fall 1996
Friday Public Lecture Series
12-1, 105 Northgate Hall

Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center and
School of Information Management & Systems

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Friday September 27

InterTrust: Trusted Content Distribution, Use, and Value Chain Management

Dr. Robert Weber
Senior Vice President for Business and Technology Strategy
InterTrust Technologies Corporation

InterTrust is one of the leaders in development of container architecture to handle the complexities of charging for Internet information and compensating rights-holders for use (rights management). Dr. Rober Weber, Senior Vice President for Business and Technology Strategy for InterTrust, will give an overview of the InterTrust Commerce Architecture, discuss its main features and benefits, and suggest how InterTrust will affect various content businesses.

Dr. Robert P. Weber is Senior Vice President, Business and Technology Strategy for InterTrust. For five years previously, he was Principal at Northeast Consulting Resources, Inc., a Boston-based consulting firm specializing in business and information technology planning and strategy. While at NCRI, Weber founded and led the information commerce and rights management practices group. Weber's clients ranged from startups to Fortune 500 companies in publishing, information services, computing, and communications, including IBM, Intel, and the Copyright Clearance Center. He has written for the trade press, including Publishers Weekly and Communications Week, and has lectured widely about rights management and information commerce challenges.

Prior to his time at NCRI, Weber held several technology-related positions at Harvard University, the last as a planner and strategist for the use of the Internet in education, research, and medicine. Weber holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Connecticut. He has written three books and more than two dozen scholarly articles on the use of computers to analyze documents for social science purposes, and he has been a Fulbright Scholar.

Electronic information economy.

Related items of interest:

• The InterTrust Container Architecture
• Sealing the Fate of Free Content on the Net (Sunday Sept 8 SF Examiner Business Section cover story on InterTrust and the implications of container architecture)
• Sept 15 SF Examiner Letter to Editor from National Writers' Union claiming that InterTrust container architecture may lead to erosion of privacy and concentration of control
• IBM's Cryptolope architecture (which will be discussed by another speaker in a future lecture)

Note: InterTrust, InterTrust Commerce Architecture, and the InterTrust logo are Trademarks of InterTrust Technologies Corporation