Scene Playlist Publishing for Licensed Digital Content
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing digital content packages do not provide tools for users to create and publish derivative works based on audio-video content without violating license terms, often requiring external editing tools and resulting in poor quality and potential infringement.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that allows users to create and publish amateur derivative works, such as playlists, directly from a digital content package using embedded tools, with features for editing and uploading to a server, ensuring compliance with copyright terms and quality control.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users create derivative works using external editing tools, then they can produce custom content, but the quality is poor and license terms may be violated
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary system consisting of a media player with embedded scene selection software and a centralized server that mediates between the user's creative desires and the content protection requirements. The media player provides authorized access to scene information and playback capabilities, while the server validates and manages the derivative works, ensuring both user creativity and content quality are maintained within license terms.
Solution Approach 2:
The media player is designed with multi-functionality, serving both as a content playback device and as a scene selection tool for creating derivative works. The embedded software provides universal access to scene information, timing data, and playback control, enabling users to create custom content without requiring external editing tools, thus maintaining both versatility and quality.
2Adaptability or versatility
If users create derivative works using external editing tools, then they can produce custom content, but copyright infringement may occur
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the media player communicates with a centralized server to report scene selections and derivative work creations. The server validates these actions against license terms and provides feedback to the user, ensuring compliance. This closed-loop feedback system maintains user creativity while reliably enforcing copyright restrictions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies preliminary anti-action by pre-authorizing specific creative actions within the media player's embedded software. Users are provided with pre-defined scene selection capabilities and playback controls that are designed to operate within license terms, preventing potential infringement before it can occur rather than relying on post-hoc validation.
3Ease of operation
If standard media players are used, then content can be played back, but no tools are provided for creating derivative works
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the content playback function with the scene selection and derivative work creation tools within a single media player system. The embedded software combines playback control, scene information access, and selection capabilities into one integrated interface, allowing users to easily play back content while simultaneously having access to tools for creating derivative works without needing separate external software.
Data Source
AI summary
A digital content package includes first content comprising a video feature such as a motion picture or the like, and a user-selectable application configured to operate as follows. When activated using an icon off of a menu screen, the application records an identifier for scenes (discrete portions) of the first content that are selected by a user to generate a playlist. The user may select the scenes by indicating a start and end of each scene. The application saves the playlist locally, then uploads to a server. Via a user account at the server, a user may publish the playlist to a user-created distribution list, webpage, or other electronic publication, and modify the playlist by deleting or reordering scenes.