The Propagate Project (now completed) was established in late 1996 by two Australian Cooperative Multimedia Centres (Access CMC and Impart Corporation) with a grant from DETYA to work on ways to solve the many issues surrounding copyright and multimedia. The Propagate project team collaborated closely with counterparts working on the Imprimatur Project, supported by the European Union, which had done pioneering work in developing consensus-based abstract classifications for the various roles involved in trading intellectual property. Imprimatur had also developed a number of business and process models for various markets using these classifications.

Propagate aimed to solve the rights management problems of multiple media types in a digital environment and the reuse issues that is emerging in sectors such as education, science, and research. Propagate built on the Imprimatur project's abstract language and market business models, and in a coordinated effort, developed an architecture for managing and trading rights and the assets to which such rights are attached.

For a description of this and other Australian Intellectual Property Management Issue projects, see http://standards.edna.edu.au/reference/projects.html#ipmi

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