The Imprimatur project was co-ordinated by the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS), an organization in Britain which represents the interests of authors. In English law, the term Author embraces a wide variety of creative disciplines. The project was launched by The European Commission DG III under the ESPRIT program and is now complete.

The Imprimatur acronym spells out: Intellectual Multimedia Property RIghts Model And Terminology for Universal Reference. This is because the project aimed to finish its life with a prototype (the rights model) that would work across all platforms together with internationally agreed standards defining its use (universal terms).

For additional information, see http://www.imprimatur.net/index.htm

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