Patent US 7,797,244

An Intellectual Property Archive (IPA) dedicated to archiving, verifying, referencing, gating, and consummating the transfers of digitized Intellectual and Copyrighted Properties within digital media. Said IPA containing the legal requirements of sale, transfer and proliferation of digitized Intellectual and Copyrighted Properties, and further providing Transaction Code Identifiers (TCI's), which serve to notify responsible third parties that transmissions within their domains contain digitized Intellectual and Copyrighted Properties, wherein said TCI's initiate protocols within said third party domains to inspect, halt, validate and transfer digitized Intellectual and Copyrighted Properties within said third party domains. Said TCI's being comprised of generic TCI's, which are human and machine readable, and Property Specific TCI's which are embedded, watermarked, associated and bundled with digitized Intellectual and Copyrighted Properties and contain the legal requirements of sale, transfer and proliferation of individual digitized Intellectual and Copyrighted Properties. Also, said responsible third parties verify content of transmissions within their respective domains against digitized Intellectual and Copyrighted Properties, and TCI's of record within the IPA. And said IPA inspecting digital transmissions of third parties within unsecured digital media, and transmissions submitted by responsible third parties to the IPA for assessment Said IPA also distributing digitized Intellectual and Copyrighted Properties in the interest of commerce and Property Rights Management.