| Formation | 2018 |
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| Purpose | Digital rights management |
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| Website | readium |
| Filename extension | .lcpl |
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| Developed by | Readium Foundation |
| Type of format | Ebook |
| Contained by | EPUB |
| Extended from | JSON, XML [1] |
| Standard | ISO/IEC 23078-2:2024 |
| Open format? | Yes |
| Free format? | Yes |
| Website | readium |
Readium LCP is an open standard [2] for a digital rights management (DRM) system for ebooks by Readium Foundation. It supports the EPUB publication format. It uses AES-256 encryption with SHA-2 hashing. It uses X.509 digital certificates. It has SDK for Swift and Kotlin.
The project got financial help from Korea Copyright Commission (KCC).[ citation needed ]
Internet Archive is lending LCP-protected ebooks. [3] Instituto Cervantes has Spanish courses. BiblioVault serves 90 scholarly presses. Shanghai Library is the second largest public library in China.