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Digital Rights Management

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Digital Rights Management technology offers the ability to control the distribution and use of the intellectual property (including media/content) and thereby protect the associated revenue or investment for the digital content businesses.

What is Digital Rights Management?

Digital Rights management is a key enabler of end to end digital content business models. Historically, Digital Rights Management is viewed primarily as the security technology used for protection of digital media copyright. However, what differentiates DRM from traditional security technologies is its ability to control content dynamically and persistently by setting policy. Policy provides regulations on the types of actions (like record, copy, play, print, view x number of times, etc.) that can be performed on the content along with the timeframe in which the content is accessible. The policy is set by the IP or content owners.

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References

  1. P. Shah, “Digital Rights Management: Managing the digital distribution value chain,” Sun Microsystems, March 2002.

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  2. “Digital Rights Management Software: Perspective,” Gartner Technology Overview.

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  3. Architecture of Windows Media Rights Manager, Microsoft Whitepaper.

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  4. R. Iannella, “Introduction to the Resource Description Framework,” Proceedings of the Asia Pacific XML Conference, Sydney, October 1998.

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  5. R. Iannella, “Online Trading of Rights-Enabled Learning Objects,” International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Summer 2004, Vol. 8, No. 4.

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  6. Open Mobile Alliance: www.openmobilealliance.org.

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  1. Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Pallavi Shah

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Florida Atlantic University (FAU), 33431, Boca Raton, FL, USA

    Borko Furht (Department Chair) (Department Chair)

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Shah, P. (2008). Digital Rights Management. In: Furht, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Multimedia. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78414-4_302

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