The Open Geospatial Consortium have released the GeoDRM Reference Model that covers functionality for geospatial resources. An opportunity now exists to create an ODRL Profile for this specification.

[2008-02-13] The 6th International Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business Models for Virtual Goods incorporating the 4th International ODRL Workshop will be held on 16-18 October 2008 in Poznan, Poland. Workshop Details.

[2007-02-13] The 3rd International ODRL Workshop joins the 5th International Virtual Goods Workshop for a joint workshop.

[2005-07-06] The ODRL/Creative Commons Profile Specification released.

[2005-03-25] ODRL V1.1 approved as a NISO Registration

[2005-02-07] The joint ODRL/DCMI Profile Working Group announced.

[2004-10-28] AegisDRM join as ODRL Supporters.

[2004-08-27] The ODRL International Advisory Board have been announced.

[2004-08-12] The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) has released Version 2 of their DRM standard - incorporating a larger profile of ODRL as the international standard mobile rights language.

[2004-07-28] Steven Rowat has published DRM Direct From Creator To User: ODRL or XrML? comments about free, open, and transparent DRM.

[2004-07-08] A call for volunteers to work on technical Profiles for ODRL. Full details at the ODRL Profiles web page.

[2004-05-26] The US Library of Congress has released an review of common Rights Expression Languages (including ODRL) authored by Karen Coyle.

[2004-03-15] Riccardo Pucella and Vicky Weissman from Cornell University have published A Formal Foundation for ODRL proposing formal semantics for ODRL.

VirtuosoMedia has formally joined the ODRL Initiative. They develop and supply technology in the field of Secure Digital Rights Management.

Mobile Streams has published a detailed report on Mobile Digital Rights Management which can be ordered online. The report outlines some key business and usability findings and highlights ODRL as the accepted OMA Standard for DRM.

The RoMEO Project has published The Intellectual Property Rights Issues Facing Self-archiving: Key Findings of the RoMEO Project. The report shows how ODRL can be used to express the Creative Commons licenses for publications using the Open Archives Initiative protocol. The Romeo Project has also released their latest technical report: RoMEO Studies 6: Rights metadata for open-archiving. See also the Cover Pages News Item.

The Contract Enabled Server (CES) Project is an initiative at the Department of Information Systems at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. The CES Demo uses ODRL as the standard rights expression language for the interpretation and processing of digital contracts. Extensive publications on digital contracts are also available.

OpenIPMP Open Source Rights Management Project have released the first version of their DRM software adhering to the ISO/MPEG-4 IPMP and ISMA streaming standards that utilises ODRL as the Rights Expression Language. Download the OpenIPMP Source from the project web site.

This annoucement confirms one of the ODRL Initative's goal to support alternatives and compatibility with the MPEG-21 REL.

Nokia have released the Content Publishing Toolkit V2.0 for creating ODRL content packages conformant to the OMA DRM specifications which can be downloaded from the Nokia Forum website. An example screen image of the application and sample ODRL OMA output is available.