Fair Use Now! is a simple but effective system exclusively available at RamReader.com that promotes the legitimate distribution of copyright material via the Internet.

Introduction

The growth of digital distribution has been accompanied by an equal growth in copyright abuse and systems to tackle it.

Traditionally there are two common forms of digital rights management (DRM) that publishers use to protect their intellectual property from unauthorised use:

• Username and Password security – where access to publications is protected by a unique name and password. As these details are easily forgotten or shared the security value of this form of protection is minimal.
  
  
• Digital Key security – where a physical key (usually in the form of an encrypted, system specific file) is provided by the publisher and must be available when reading the material. This model usually restricts the DRM to specific computer systems and can be complicated if the licensees wants to read the material on more than one system.

The Fair Use Now! Solution

Fair Use Now! takes a different approach. All publications are accessible via a single email address and password but, and here is the important point, only 1 licensed user can access his or her library at a time.

So whenever you log into RamReader, any other session open using your name is automatically closed. And so if a user does share his login credentials, then he also is giving up his access to all of his publications as well.

This approach is similar to the way we treat printed material where a publication may be lent around but it can always only be practically read by one person at a time.

This "Last Man Standing" approach to DRM has a number of distinct advantages:

• Your online library is always available wherever you are
• Making the contents of your library publicly available by sharing your user name or password is impractical because the session may be interrupted by anyone else with the same login credentials
• The system only requires an active internet connection and is not bound by any particular computer system or browser
• The system is simple to implement and FREE to all eligible publishers

How do I Protect My Online Offerings with Fair Use Now!

Generally, the only requirement for complete integration with the Fair Use Now! system is some special code embedded in your source documents. The requirements are dependant on the type of document you publish.

Please contact us for more information.