Member content that stays a member benefit.
MyPass DRM keeps standards, publications and paid research with the members entitled to them — watermarked to each reader, expiring with membership, and recorded on every open. Standalone, or connected to your AMS or member platform through the REST API.
The association problem in one sentence
Your content is the membership: standards, member publications and research are why people join — and once downloaded, they circulate to people who never did. One institutional login serves many branches, lapsed members keep their libraries, and paid publications drift between membership tiers.
What MyPass DRM changes
- Access that follows entitlement. When a membership lapses or a tier changes, access to protected documents can end with it — even for content already delivered.
- Recipient watermarking. Every page a member opens carries their identity. Standards that surface on a shared drive point back to a person or institution — see dynamic watermarking.
- Time-based access and revocation. Align document access with the membership year, a subscription term, or an event window — see document expiration.
- Device authorization. Keep one member account from becoming a department's shared reader.
- Print & copy controls applied by policy, per document or per audience.
- Access records. Who opened what, and when — for license compliance conversations and an honest view of which member benefits are used.
Standalone or connected to your systems
Many associations start standalone: protect documents in the workspace and deliver controlled access from your existing member portal — no development work. When you want access to track entitlement automatically, connect your AMS, member platform or custom application through the REST API: your system of record grants and ends access as membership changes, and access events flow back to you. Where an AMS integration is the goal, the API is the mechanism — we don't claim one-click connectors we don't have.
Who this fits
Professional associations and societies. Standards bodies. Credentialing organizations. Membership organizations distributing paid or member-only publications, and associations running member education alongside training and certification programs.
Learn more first
For the fuller picture of how associations approach content protection, read DRM for associations: standards, publications and member content, and our guide to what actually stops a PDF being shared. Our security page states plainly what DRM can and cannot enforce.