Standards
CDSA represents CD, DVD and CD-ROM media manufacturers worldwide that have been certified in its Anti-Piracy Compliance Program by independent ISO-accredited auditors to reduce the risk of producing pirated or unauthorized content. Your content is in safe hands when you use a CDSA-certified replicator.
Preliminary Program Overview
- Part of the CDSA Anti-Piracy and Compliance Programs, the CDSA APCP: Digital Download Supply Chain Standards & Procedures are an industry-driven initiative designed to protect intellectual property in the supply chain from content creation, production, digital compression, encoding, and authoring to manufacturing and distribution of final product. These Standards have been developed by a task force representing intellectual property owners, their manufacturers, suppliers and distributors along the content delivery supply chain. This policy is to be understood and maintained by all levels of the organization involved with the appropriate and applicable standards of the CDSA Anti-Piracy and Compliance Programs.
- The objective of these Standards and Procedures is to provide a framework for managing assets assigned to digital download supply chain partners of client content owners in a managed manner and by reducing risks to levels acceptable to the content owner by:
- Reducing the chances of unauthorized digital downloads through security leaks within the storage and distribution channels of the content owners’ labels’ supply chain partners
- Identifying loss of income and content assets through theft or unreported download sales
- Mitigating or preventing loss of asset inventory upon the cessation of the business relationship between the content owner and a download supply chain partner.
- These Standards and Procedures specify the minimum technical and procedural requirements for protection of client assets and products by organizations and facilities providing services within the Digital Download Supply Chain, including, but not limited to:
- Creative production of content
- Compression, encoding, and authoring of content
- Distribution and/or storage of content by digital means.
- These Standards and Procedures are suitable for the assessment of the content security management system of the organization by an external party.
- These Standards and Procedures describe the primary, broad internal procedures and requirements which must be in place for a facility to be in compliance with the CDSA Anti-Piracy and Compliance Programs, APCP: Digital Download Supply Chain – They represent the essence of good business practices and are congruent with ISO certification procedures tailored specifically to content creation and delivery.
- In addition, these Standards and Procedures describe specific requirements which must be in place in order for a site to be in compliance with the CDSA Anti-Piracy and Compliance Programs, APCP: Content Protection and Security – Digital Download Supply Chain.
- Standards and Procedures for authorized media manufacturers of client assets are controlled by the current version of the CDSA Anti-Piracy and Compliance Programs Standards and Procedures for protecting intellectual property by adhering to copyright laws and processes.
- Standards and Procedures for authorized post-production video facilities; for music recording mixing and mastering studios; for sites providing destruction and reclamation of manufactured media containing intellectual property; and for physical and electronic security and content protection at supply chain service providers are controlled by the current versions of the CDSA Anti-Piracy and Compliance Programs Standards and Procedures for protecting intellectual property at those specific points in the content delivery and storage supply chain.
For further information please contact Timothy J. Gorman, Director – Worldwide Anti-Piracy and Compliance Programs, at +1-301-941-0308 or email: tgorman@contentdeliveryandstorage.org
Facilities Certified Under this ProgramThe following has been certified as having meet all requirements of these Standards:
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Questions or Comments?
- Timothy J. Gorman, Director of Anti-Piracy and Compliance Programs
- Worldwide
E-Mail: tgorman@contentdeliveryandstorage.org
182 Nassau Street, Suite 204, Princeton, New Jersey 08542 USA
Tel: +1-301-941-0308, Fax: +1-609-279-1999 - Peter Wallace, Director - Anti-Piracy &Compliance
Programs - Europe/Middle East/Africa
E-Mail: pwallace@contentdeliveryandstorage.org
One Heddon Street, Mayfair, London W1B 4BD, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 7850 331033 - James S. Wise, Director - CDSA Anti-Piracy Compliance
Program - Asia
E-Mail: jwise@contentdeliveryandstorage.org
22/F, 3 Lockhart Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong, SAR
Tel: +852-2863-6980, Fax: +852-2290-9111