Yesterday a federal jury found a Minnesota woman guilty of copyright infringement due to her sharing of online music. While digital music piracy is on the fringe the topic of enterprise content security, it is on the leading edge of fringe, and marks a critical turning point in how courts are understanding and ruling on misuse of digital content. This is very timely as our first Market IQ report, to be published next week, is a treatise on this very issue. Digital content is being held to the same rules and scrutiny as any other form of content. But the highly prolific nature of digital content requires some new approaches to securing content. When a market report is sold to a customer, the customer is not given a license to share it unconditionally. When documents are shared (digitally) with a business partner, that does not necessarily give them the right to share it with someone else. Despite the courts embracing of these issues, most organizations have yet to implement a comprehensive content security initiative. In our survey of 600 organizations, nearly half indicated that they had no project underway or were just beginning to form a strategy.
What Is Your Organizations Current Involvement With Content Security?
But our story does not start there. Despite the slow uptake on state-of-the-art content security technology, our findings found that from a strategy scope perspective, organizations are looking broadly, not just at "securing content", but sharing it in a secure manner. More to come . . .
