ORM

From Gnash Project Wiki

This is a system for ensuring the rights of the creator of a piece of digital content. An author may have varying views on how their creation can be used. They may want just want to have count kept every time their creative work is played, or to charge money for this viewing, or to be free to everyone, but cost money for commercial reproduction. Rather than a Digital Rights Management system than mandates behavior and forces end users' computers to lock up, ORM is more of a passive system, like the GPL, where the metadata can be used as evidence of copyright infringement.

Other Rights Management Projects

• Open Media Commons Sponsored by Sun, so of course all the code is in Java. Here's an article on Sun's OpenDRM project.