The Open Media Commons, sometimes referred to as the Open Media Commons initiative, is a computer industry group whose goal is to "develop open, royalty-free digital rights management and

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solutions". One of their largest supporters is Sun Microsystems, who released their internal digital rights management (DRM) project, Project DReaM, as part of the Open Media Commons initiative on 22 August 2005. Project DReaM one of several project organized through the Open Media Commons initiative: * DRM-OPERA: An interoperable DRM architecture that is not dependent upon a specific hardware set or

operating system An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware, software resources, and provides common services for computer programs. Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also i ...

. * Java Stream Assembly:

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-based server software that allows for distribution of

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OMS Video OMS Video is an open, royalty-free video compression specification that was under development by Sun Microsystems's Open Media Commons as part of the Open Media Stack. It defines a video decoder and the associated bitstream syntax. It is intended ...

: a royalty-free codec loosely based on the

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with new tools & optimizations.OMS Video, A Project of Sun's Open Media Commons Initiative : Open Media Commons
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References

External links

OpenMediaCommons.org official homepage
Digital rights management standards Sun Microsystems {{cryptography-stub