METHOD OF DISTRIBUTING DIGITAL PUBLICATIONS INCORPORATING USER GENERATED AND ENCRYPTED CONTENT WITH UNIQUE FINGERPRINTS

摘要

Electronic publications are increasingly replacing physical media, where standards have evolved to mimic these physical media. Accordingly it is beneficial to provide electronic publication software systems and /or software applications to enable new paradigms that provide consumers, authors, publishers, retailers, and others with a method of publishing new electronic content in a manner wherein primary and secondary electronic content may be combined from multiple sources to generate said new electronic content which may be distributed based upon rights embedded within content elements. The method further comprising the ability to support community interactions within work and private environments; to re-assign licenses and issue sub-licenses; and to distribute said new electronic content with a unique fingerprint allowing unique identification of sources of non-authorised content.