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Anonymous

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Licensing Captivate movies

Forum|Forum|19 years ago
May 20, 2006
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Hi,

We are currently evaluating Macromedia Captivate software. We figured out that the licensing mechanism for trainings created with Captivate is very basic. In the sense, we saw that captivate provides only the following two licensing mechanisms:

1. set a password for the trainings created by captivate
2. set an expiry date for the trainings created by captivate

What we need is:
-> an option within captivate or external to captivate which will allow us to create trainings and license them on a per-user or per-machine basis.

Can any one suggest how we can achieve this? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Quizzing and LMS

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Itzelm

Inspiring

We have been struggling with these same issues.

My org. is getting ready to launch some digital materials. for e-books we've found adobe's digital rights management software to allow us to license the files and control what people can do with them. for our streaming videos we will be using either Flash media server or flash rights management server to control the licensing part.

for captivate? we are not sure. what we will probably end up doing is using an LMS to control how long a person can view the files. we are looking into tying the lms with some shopping cart engine that can help us handle that part. for content protection? that's still up in the air. there are programs out there that can help you license and protect your swf files. Locklizard is one of them. However, if your content is SCORMEd, you are pretty much screwed as these FLASH solutions don't work for that. And if you have to fulfill 508 compliance requirements, you are ROYALLY SCREWED as many of the content protection programs encrypt the content and decrypt it, and the decrypted content looses all 508 compliance features from the original!!! so, i don't know what we'll do for content protection. we found a domain lock for captivate, created by cpguru (i think he posted earlier) and we are testing this to see if the solution is viable to at least control how people view the files.

I hope this answers your questions. let me know if you have more answers as we have done some digital rights management research.

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Itzelm

Inspiring

and, ats, what it sounds like, is that your company needs an e-commerce engine that allows for licensing. one of the universities i visited (while doing research on drm and licensing), sells courses by licenses. the licensing is translated into the application that manages this. they had a company built the engine (licensing + shopping cart) and integrate it with Blackboard (which is the lms they are using)

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LK55

Participant

I know that this is an old post and hope there has been some change since the last post. I have produced training programs using Adobe Captivate 4 that I will be distributing on DVD for the time being as a stop-gap measure due to issues with our web host and server. Is there any way to keep the general user - not the tech savvy ones - from copying the DVD materials to their computer for redistribution. I am using the copyright and expiration date feature but am sure that is not to hard to defeat. Any help will be appreciated.

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LK55

Participant

Sorry, I meant password and expiration date features.

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www_cpguru_com

Inspiring

I guess that the only way would be to use one of the commercially available copy protection schemes for DVD/CD such as http://www.protect-software.com/.

However, be aware that these copy protection schemes might cause your DVD to not work on some computers.

/Michael

Visit my Captivate blog with tips & tricks, tutorials and Widgets.

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Anonymous

Yep,
that makes sense too

and perfectly clarified

cheers
Rossco

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Anonymous

Is this possible to do using Captivate?

Captiv8r

Legend

Hi ATS Admin and welcome to the community

At first read, I thought perhaps you were simply wondering about whether one needed special permission to distribute Captivate movies. But on second read, I'm surmising that you somehow want to "serialize" movies so only those with possibly a subscription or special access can watch them. Am I correct?

If I am correct, I believe fellow Adobe Community Expert Paul Dewhurst once had a method up on his Raising Aimee site showing how one can restrict running a Captivate movie from a specific URL. I think when Paul revised his site, this one wasn't propagated forth for some reason. But I do know it is possible, as I saw him do it. Not sure exactly how, but possible.

However, not sure how easy it would be to accomplish using Captivate as it stands. Beyond the password mechanism, there isn't anything I'm aware of to facilitate such a thing. Might be worth asking about or suggesting to the development team using the following link.

Click here to visit the wish form

Cheers... Rick

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