SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS AND DISTRIBUTION OF DIGITAL PROPERTY

摘要

The digital data access and distribution system (100) includes two main components: a data distributor (102) and a user (104). The data distributor (102) takes data (106) and produces packaged data (108) which are provided to the user (104) via the communication channel (105), perhaps in return for some form of payment (110). Corresponding to each of the distributor (102) and the user (104) are the system's authoring mechanism (112) and access mechanism (114). The authoring mechanism (112) of the distributor (102) takes the data (106) to be packaged and produces packaged data (108) which is provided to the user (104) by the distribution mechanism (118).