Martin Springer

Work Samples

The following list contains texts, presentations and reference projects on the subjects of digital media business models, digital rights management and digital television

Digital Media Business Models

2009
MPEG - presentation of my work at Pecha Kucha Night Berlin

08/06/01
The Value of Registering Creative Works - presentation of a paper at the at the COMMUNIA conference on the Public Domain in the Digital Age.

08/03/20
The Future of Digital Branding

Essay on the future of digital branding (German only)

Digital Media Project

2004 - 2009

DMP Open Reflector

Numerous contributions to the development of an open standard for interoperable DRM and on the subject of "Traditional Rights and Usages" in the Digital Media Manifesto open forum
08/01/19
07/10/12
Promoting Music Sampling by Semantic Web-enhanced DRM tools

Presentation of Roberto Garcia's and my paper for the 5th International Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business Models for Virtual Goods. To be published in Virtual Goods: Technology, Economy, and Legal Aspects.
07/02/13
Autonomous Domains

Why we need to protect our communication environments
06/10/19
Considerations on DRM standards

Overview of relevant players and components in the field of DRM standards
06/01/19
05/10/13
DMP Reference Software

Presentation for students of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Bejing (PPT Sildes)
05/01/13
Rights, Exceptions, Usages - but no expectations please

Presentation on the subject "DRM between Consumer Expectations and Consumer Rights" for the 3rd DRM Conference in Berlin (PPT slides)

Digital-TV

2007 - 2008
Disko - development of a plugin based framework providing components to create media oriented applications with special user interfaces on embedded platforms. It is closely connected to the DirectFB hardware abstraction library and specialized in touchscreen and remote control navigation.

Disko logo
2006 - 2005
Telefuturo - audiovisual communication in the age of convergence

Compilation of ideas on the foundation of a technology service provider for audiovisual media
05/03/02
Die Zukunft des Fernsehens gestalten

Project proposal for a workshop with students of the Merz Akademie
2005 - 2002
Product design for Digital TV receivers

Collaboration with industrial designers by unit-design. (PDF Product Roadmap)

galaxis_pop
2005 - 2002
Product wrapping and brochures for Digital TV receivers

Collaboration with industrial designers by unit-design

galaxis_broschuere
2005 - 2002
Navigation concept, User Interface design and usability testing for Digital TV receivers

Collaboration with interface designers

kirikou
02/02/23
Der Rundfunk dreht am Rad

Article for the magazine "Datenschleuder" by Chaos Computer Club
2003 - 1998
LinuxTV.org Webmaster

Establishment of an online community to develop Open Source software for digital television. The implementation of the DVB standard is part of the official Linux kernel.

LinuxTV_Website

DirectFB.org

Contributions to the development of an Open Source API for hardware graphics acceleration, input device handling and abstraction.

DirectFB logo

01/12/01
A structured approach to the development of a set-top box user interface

Description of the development of a user interface for a digital television set-top box (PDF Layouts)
2001 - 1999
Advisor for computer science and graphics design students during their internships

Claude Le Berre developed a Video Annotation Engine. Alexander Geh designed a User Interface. Christian Wurster published an illustrated history of computers. David Podeur implemented an IP multicast software
99/12/31
On Convergence

Treatise on the convergence of digital media (German version)
99/11/24
99/10/27
"Das deutsche Fernsehen der Zukunft"

Konzept für die Radiosendung Chaosradio 44 des CCC Berlin