Director Information for Digitized Organizations

The development of modern technological protection systems for digitized copyrighted works through private, voluntary, industry-led entities often takes place within a complex, dynamic organizational environment that also includes formal and informal standard-setting organizations, trade associations, non-profit research organizations, governmental and inter-governmental bodies. The non-exhaustive list of organizations that follows is intended to provide introductory information about the efforts of private companies and organizations to develop technological protection systems through an open, broad-based consensus process, including their interactions with other entities within this network. All descriptions of the organizations and their activities in this section are distilled from information that is made publicly available by the entities.