Dear Caml List 

You are cordially invited to participate at the AXMEDIS2005 International
Conference, 30 Nov - 2 Dec 2005, Florence, Italy. This will be a significant
 and exciting event on cross-media, production GRID, content 
protection, license interoperability, terminals, digital media, P2P, DRM
(digital rights management), MPEG-21, multi-channel delivery, content
modelling, security and distribution, legal aspects, accessibility,
business models, transaction models, multimedia music, workflow, and many 
more http://www.AXMEDIS.org/axmedis2005 

At the Conference, the AXMEDIS FP6 IP project of European Commission Consortium
 will announce the launch of a Call for a One Million Euro “Take-Up” 
Actions/projects for all interested commercial companies and research 
institutions.

Highlights include:
* keynote presentation by Leonardo Chiariglione (www.chiariglione.org)
* many cutting edge research, scientific and technical presentations
* state-of-the-art industrial presentations 
* workshops, tutorials and panels including those of:
  -- MUSICNETWORK on MPEG SMR, 
  -- AFI on Legal aspects of digital content business and collecting societies 
  -- Virtual Goods on business models 
  -- EUAIN on content and music accessibility.
* Tutorial on MPEG-21
* Tutorial on AXMEDIS technologies

The AXMEDIS 2005 International Conference is a perfect occasion to meet the 
experts and practitioners from both industrial, and research institutes. 
Many market leaders and prestigious research institutions including Univ. 
Firenze, DSI - Univ. Firenze, EPFL, EUTELSAT, FHGIGD, FUPF - Univ. Pompeo 
Fabra, Giunti ILABS, HP, OD2, SEJER, TISCALI, ICSRiM - Univ. Leeds, Univ.
 Readings, and many more, etc. 

This event is supported by all the above mentioned institutions, the 
MUSICNETWORK http://www.interactivemusicnetwork.org/ , 
and the European Commission.

For registration, please see
http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2005/registration.html

A provisional programme of the conference can be found at 
http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2005/program.html

Hope to see you there!

Best wishes,
Paolo, Kia and Jaime
AXMEDIS 2005
www.axmedis.org/axmedis2005