At 4:17 AM -0700 on 7/30/01, GigaLaw.com wrote: > [PATENTS] > Company Awarded Patent for "Digital Tickets" > Digital rights management company ContentGuard said it has received a > patent for a "digital ticket," which lets copyright holders distribute and > track people's access to digital goods such as music, video, e-books and > images. Bethesda, Md.-based ContentGuard, which is backed by Xerox and > Microsoft, said the digital ticket is similar to the way a ticket in the > physical world allows people to gain access to a concert or a baseball > game. > Read the article: ZDNet News @ > >http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/newsbursts/0,7407,2799368,00.html?chkpt=p1bn > > Further reading on GigaLaw.com: What is a "Business-Method Patent"? @ > http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/2001/kirsch-2001-05-p1.html -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]