As the industry takes a fresh look at whether or not to lift DRM from ebooks to provide readers with greater flexibility (and something closer to real ownership and control of their files) and potentially loosen the “lock in” of particular platforms, the IDPF has published a draft proposal outlining another possible path. The digital standards organization suggests the possibility of developing a “lightweight content protection technology” that would be easily interoperable across multiple platforms, as an alternative both to current “heavy” DRM and to the lighter-still “watermarking” of personal data that Pottermore has used on the Harry Potter ebooks. […]
