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Chris Barlas has more than twenty years experience of rights management. In the mid 1990s he led the Imprimatur project (the first major pan-European digital rights management initiative, supported by the European Commission) and gained an extensive knowledge of Internet based IPR protection and trading. After this he was actively involved with several other successful European Commission projects, including <indecs>, the fundamental analysis of metadata interoperability.
Since joining Rightscom (of which he is a co-founder) as a senior consultant, Chris has forged working relationships with major rights holders and technology companies in relation to digital rights management issues, particularly in addressing the needs of all parties in the value chain. He has also advised telecommunications companies and other intermediaries. In the standards environment he has recently completed work on the MPEG-21 Rights Data Dictionary to be published as an International Standard in 2004. Chris has also edited a European Commission major report on standards and digital rights management and is a co-author of a WIPO report on DRM published in 2003.
Following Rightscom's recent acquisition of Ontologyx, Chris has assumed responsibility for developing the market for this new technology to support rights metadata interoperability.
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