DocuRights® Demonstration
Introduction
DocuRights from Aries Systems Corporation provides copyright and copy
protection for
PDF (Portable Document Format) files distributed across the Internet or
through other electronic media such as email and CD-ROM. Publishers of PDF
content can use
DocuRights to control access to PDF files, regardless of their physical
location.
At the same time, readers obtain all the benefits traditionally associated
with document access such as "fair-use" rights.
Getting Started
For purposes of this demonstration, you'll first need to have
Adobe Acrobat Reader. Click
here to obtain this software if you need it.
Now for the Fun!
DocuRights "Pay-Go" Mode
First download one of the sample protected PDFs below onto your computer.
When you attempt to open the PDF on your computer using Acrobat Reader you
will be guided through a one-time registration process.
Once this is completed, and you re-open the PDF
file you will be offered a 30-second free preview, and then prompted to "purchase" the document. For purposes of this
demonstration,
use the test credit card number:
4111-1111-1111-1111 Expiration: any
(Don't use a real credit card - otherwise you'll be charged for real!).
Copyright
Basics (PDF)
Limitations
on Information Furnished by the Copyright Office (PDF)
Publications
on Copyright (PDF)
NOTE: A page-marginal legend is "injected" onto each page of the
PDF when it is printed. This legend is chosen by the publisher, and can
contain whatever copyright
cautionary statement the publisher deems appropriate.
DocuRights "Pass-Along" Mode
Now, take any of the PDFs you downloaded, copy it to a diskette, and copy
it onto another computer (as though you'd passed it on to a colleague,
or posted it on a Web site for general access). Then try opening the PDF
file. Each of these PDFs has been authorized just one replication (your
initial download) - one "fair-use". When you pass the PDF along, the next
recipient must
re-purchase the document.
Publishers can specify how many replications can be made
of any instance of a PDF ("fair-use"), before the replication limit is
reached. For
example, if a publisher chooses to set the replication policy count at
three (three "fair-uses"), this lets the
user receive the original PDF, and replicate it on two other machines (allowing
for use at home, office, and on a notebook, for example).
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