4C Entity is the industry organization leading the development, adoption and promotion of interoperable standards for the authorized sharing of premium content. IBM, Intel, Panasonic and Toshiba have joined forces to address the interoperability challenge of sharing copyright-protected content among a wide range of digital devices produced by multiple manufacturers. 4C Entity technologies are critical to providing consumers with flexible access to all forms of digital content, while ensuring that the content is high quality, easy to store and maintain, transferable to similar digital devices and copyright-holder friendly.

Content Management License Administrator (CMLA), LLC is the entity formed to provide commercial licenses for the CMLA Technology Specification which forms a trust model for the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Digital Rights Management (DRM) version 2.0 (and, as updated) interoperability specification. CMLA also extends this trust model to enable content and service protection for mobile broadcast by adding support of the IP Datacast over DVB-H: Service Purchase and Protection (SPP) A100 Specification Annex B (18Crypt) and the OMA Bcast DRM Profile.

The mission of the Open Mobile Alliance is to facilitate global user adoption of mobile data services by specifying market driven mobile service enablers that ensure service interoperability across devices, geographies, service providers, operators, and networks, while allowing businesses to compete through innovation and differentiation.

The OMTP group has been created by international operators with the aim of enhancing the subscriber experience in using advanced mobile terminal platforms - 2.5G and above.
The OMTP group will aim to:

• Allow mobile operators to provide consumers with a consistent subscriber interface, across their particular networks;
• Support and promote the development of open standards associated with appropriate technologies, ensuring that the underlying requirements for security and interoperability are satisfied; and
• Provide an organisation where mobile operators and manufacturers can work together in order to develop recommendations for devices that allow operators to improve their customers' service experience across multiple devices.

In January 2000, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic), SanDisk Corporation and Toshiba Corporation established the SD Card Association as a new industry-wide organization charged with setting industry standards and promoting wide acceptance for the SD Memory Card in digital applications.

The association aims to establish the technical and specification standards for SD Memory Card applications, to continuously promote the SD memory card as the de-facto industry standard, and to encourage the development of digital A/V, wireless communication, and digital networking products that utilize the many unique benefits of SD technology.