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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2005
Matthew David New, Irvine, CA (US);
Jonathan Cooper Ochenas, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Carl Joseph Sobeski, West Pittston, PA (US);
Matthew David New, Irvine, CA (US);
Jonathan Cooper Ochenas, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Carl Joseph Sobeski, West Pittston, PA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of acquiring rights to content to be burned to a CD, comprising defining a first content set; defining a second content set comprised of content selected from the first content set whose content attributes match those selected by a user; identifying as a third content set that content in the second content set for which DRM rights sufficient to permit the content to be burned to CD are not currently possessed; allowing a user to authorize obtaining rights for members of the second content set for which rights permitting the content to be burned to CD are not currently possessed; obtaining rights which allow at least a subset of the third content set to be burned to CD; and, allowing the content defined in the second content set and for which appropriate rights have been obtained to be burned to CD.