Method of distributing digital publications incorporating user generated and encrypted content with unique fingerprints

Abstract

Electronic publications are increasingly replacing physical media, where standards have evolved to mimic these physical media. Accordingly it is beneficial to provide electronic publication software systems and/or software applications to enable new paradigms that provide consumers, authors, publishers, retailers, and others with a method of publishing new electronic content in a manner wherein primary and secondary electronic content may be combined from multiple sources to generate said new electronic content which may be distributed based upon rights embedded within content elements. The method further comprising the ability to support community interactions within work and private environments; to re-assign licenses and issue sub-licenses; and to distribute said new electronic content with a unique fingerprint allowing unique identification of sources of non-authorised content.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This patent application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application U.S. 61 / 610,066 filed Mar. 13, 2012 entitled “Methods and Systems for Digital Content” and U.S. Provisional Patent Application US 61 / 610,068 filed Mar. 13, 2102 entitled “Methods and Systms for Digital Contents”, the entire contents of which are included by reference.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]The present invention relates to electronic content and more specifically to licensing, annotating, publishing, generating, rendering, and social community engagement of electronic content.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]In 2010, Google estimated that since the invention of printing, approximately 130,000,000 unique titles had been published. When writing systems were invented in ancient civilizations, approximately 6,000 years ago, words were not separated from each other (scriptural continua) and there was no punctuation and employed various media including tree ba...

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Benefits of technology

[0021]It is an object of the present invention to mitigate limitations and disadvantages of the prior art with respect to electronic content and more specifically to licensing, annotating, publishing, generating, rendering, and social community engagement of electronic content.

Problems solved by technology

Additionally, the Internet has resulted in a rapid proliferation of information and written content overall despite erosion generally in writing skills of users of the Internet.

However, EPUB does not support Digital Rights Management (DRM) directly and such functionality is typically applied through applying “wrappers” such as Adobe's Content Server approach to provide an equivalent function as the “wrapper” is encrypted / decrypted by the supporting eReader software thereby exposing the EPUB for display.

However, reading systems are not required to provide the fonts necessary to display every Unicode character, though they are required to display at least a placeholder for characters that cannot be displayed fully.

Annotation: However use of a ZIP file as the container for the EPUB hinders linking into, between, or within an EPUB book which is not helped through the specification's lack of detail on linking.

Additionally, EPUB lacks within the specification consideration of annotation.

This lack of a standardized way to annotate EPUB books leads to ad-hoc solutions resulting in it being difficult or impossible to share and / or transfer annotations therefore limiting the use of EPUB as it cannot provide a level of interactivity comparable to the web.

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