Digital Rights Management for Google Docs &  Spreadsheets, Maps and Picasa Web Albums

AegisDRM products are unique in being able to apply Digital Rights Management to web based documents produced using Google Docs and Spreadsheets (formerly Upstartle LLC's Writely) allowing document creators or editors to control whether viewers can copy, screengrab, save or print a document.

AegisDRM Digital Rights Management products are already used by ESRI - the world's number one professional mapping company to apply Digital Rights Management to high value maps and work seamlessly with Google Maps (formerly Where2 LLC Maps) as well as with Picasa Web Albums and will work with Google Base/Google Purchases, Google Music and Google Video.

But is DRM "Evil"? Not necessarily - no more than locks or passwords. In a free market you can choose if and when to use them. Google doesn't give free access for anyone to your personal Gmail account for example - it lets you protect it with passwords. Evolution will allow each content provider to decide if they have chosen the right model!

Unusually for a Digital Rights Management product protected documents can still be indexed by Google if required.

Asked whether this product might be of interest to Eric Schmidt, Larry E. Page and Sergey Brin, AegisDRM director Mark Baker stated

"Google has been making a number of carefully thought out small acquisitions and it looks very much as if these Digital Rights Management solutions fit the mould - both in order to offer a simple, functional alternative to Microsoft's DRM for Google users and because essentially

Providers of technology to T-Systems, Deutsche Telekom