Friday, February 03, 2006

Reassigning ESBN Licensees

Did you know that you can assign and transfer your copyright use permissions to and from various licensees?

This is one of the beauties of having a unique ESBN ID assigned to each digital asset! Simply sign into your ESBN account and go to Manage ESBNs, click on Update Licensee, enter a new name and email address, and voila ESBN privileges are transferred!

This feature is the base of open digital rights management. In a time where DRM is way out of control, it really should be this simple. Who owns the copyright and the use of the digital asset? Anyone can verify these fields by signing into the ESBN portal and searching on the published ESBN ID or by clicking on the ESBN ID.

ESBN.ORG
ESBN 14708-060203-642170-85