[Web4lib] Restrict the number of times a document is printed

[S.J.Newman at brighton.ac.uk]

The British Library's Secure Electronic Delivery service
(www.bl.uk/services/document/sed.htm) appears to just be using the DRM
features of Adobe Acrobat 6.1 and above to restrict the number of print
attempts (2) and successful print attempts (1)


Steve

Steve Newman
Networked Information Services Manager
University of Brighton, UK
+44 (0)1273 642637

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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 11:06:22 -0400
From: Isabelle Laplante <ilaplante at cdc.qc.ca>
Subject: [Web4lib] Restrict the number of times a document is printed
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Message-ID: <42C1676E.2010902 at cdc.qc.ca>
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Hello All!

We have a new "Act to amend the Copyright Act"  in Canada (June 20, 2005).
( URL =
http://www.parl.gc.ca/PDF/38/1/parlbus/chambus/house/bills/government/C-60_1
.PDF 

)

As a Library, we have now to restrict the printing to "only one copy" of
digital form documents, that are sent [as Inter-library Loan] (Bill
C-60, page 17).

Do you have suggestions of ways of How to do that with PDF? Maybe Open
Source?

For now, I found only 2 softwares (via  http://www.planetpdf.com )

1) "PageRecall" from Authentica
http://www.authentica.com

2) "FileOpen"
(http://www.fileopen.com)


Thanks in advance!

Isabelle Laplante
Head Librarian / Bibliothecaire
Centre de documentation collegiale
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
E-Mail : ilaplante at cdc.qc.ca




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