Niels Rump

Niels Rump supports clients in the development of their requirements in the context of international technical standardisation bodies. As such, he is involved in the development of metadata and messaging systems within DDEX. Niels has worked in the area of digital rights management (DRM) for around 30 years. He was the main developer of one of the earlier commercial DRM systems (Fraunhofer IIS’ Multimedia Protection Protocol, MMP) for which several German and international patents bear his name.

During his time at Fraunhofer IIS (the “home of mp3”), Niels started working in several DRM-related standards bodies including ISO/MPEG, AES, OPIMA and SDMI. Niels has also worked for InterTrust Technologies. For his work on ISO/MPEG standards he has received “ISO/IEC certificates of appreciation”.

Since joining Rightscom in 2001, Niels has concentrated on the technical aspects of DRM applications and technologies – mainly the communication of rights metadata between business partners. He has also advised clients in technology assessments including fingerprinting and watermarking applications, optimisation of workflow processes and the development of architectures for the processing of rights information.

Niels Rump has been co-ordinating the technical standards development at DDEX since its inception in 2006. As such, he is the main author of most of the DDEX standards.

Niels is also a regular speaker at conferences on DRM and has published several papers, and a book, on the topic. He was also a visiting lecturer at the University of Popular Music in Mannheim, Germany.