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- A Role for Smartcards in Digital Media Distribution and Digital Rights Management
- Smartcards can play an enabling role in digital rights management. This paper describes innovative uses of Smartcards, interacting with both today's insecure playback devices (primarily Internet-connected personal computers) and future generations of secure rendering devices, as part of a large-scale system for digital media distribution that respects and protects the...
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- Survey of Digital Rights Management (DRM) Approaches and Their Potential Application to Support Simulation Composability
- This paper explores current and future mechanisms for ensuring the digital rights of the authors and distributors as it relates to Base Object Models (BOMs). Varying levels of automation are studied as they apply to intellectual properties and Digital Rights Management (DRM). Analysis of security and protection techniques from various...
- White papers
- Does Copy Protection Hamper Sales?
- If stats from U.K. music e-tailer 7 Digital are any indication (by way of Ars Technica), then the answer to the headline would be, "yes." Music with digital rights management (DRM) is four times less likely to sell than tracks without DRM protection. Additionally, those who buy DRM-free music are...
- Blog posts 2007-11-09
- Amazon's DRM Free World
- Amazon decided it wants in on the digital music service market and clearly has its eyes on snatching up iTune users. So what are the implications of Amazon's new foray into digital music peddling? Well, the move will make Amazon the first digital music service to offer...
- Blog posts 2007-05-16
- Steve Jobs: Prophet or Self-Promoter?
- Sure Steve Jobs’ is being lauded as a giant killer and hero for music consumers in his call for the death of copy-protection technology -- aka DRM -- in an essay he posted Tuesday. But it also may have been one of the cheapest marketing ploys in recent memory. From...
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
- Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products
- As it becomes cheaper to copy and share digital content, vendors are turning to technical protections such as encryption. The paper argues that if protection is nevertheless imperfect, this transition will generally lower the prices of content relative to perfect legal enforcement. It shows that demand-based cost sharing generally leads...
- White papers 2005-07-01
- P2P Makeover: Showtime for DRM?
- Digital piracy is content creators' and providers' migraine. The "analog hole" allow consumers to record digital content displayed on analog output devices. The content industry has scrambled for solutions to ameliorate the situation. The industry is re-mapping its strategies as it comes to the realization that lawsuits alone won't plug...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Peer-to-Peer Networking and Digital Rights Management: How Market Tools Can Solve Copyright Problems
- The study presented in this paper examines how Digital Rights Management (DRM) may complement Peer to Peer (P2P) technology and help solve many of the intellectual property problems now hotly contested in the current policy arena. From a popular vantage point, Napster - though not a pure P2P network (because...
- White papers 2005-02-17
- Digital Rights Management and Technology Bill Evaluation Using Stakeholder Analysis: A Case Study of the Music Industry
- The introduction of Intellectual Property protection technologies such as Digital Rights Management Systems and the introduction of technology bills have an effect on various parties who both affect and are affected by these. Furthermore, all parties involved may have a different view depending on their interests and attitudes and may...
- White papers 2004-08-30
- The Potential Demise of Another Natural Monopoly: New Technologies and the Future Administration of Copyright
- This paper critically analyzes this natural monopoly argument. It argues that the case for PROs is not as straightforward as it is assumed to be. It shows that many of the underlying cost efficiencies that are attributed to PROs are usually simply assumed, and in many cases could be equally...
- White papers 2004-07-01
- Copyright Law: Digital Rights Management Legislation
- Digital Rights Management (DRM) refers to the technology that copyright owners use to protect digital media. This report surveys several of the DRM bills that were introduced in the 107th Congress and those that are pending in the 108th Congress. Generally, the bills are directed at two separate goals. One...
- White papers 2004-05-28
- On Integration Of Digital Rights Management Processes Preceding Content Publishing
- The methods and technologies providing advantages in controlling and managing intellectual property rights are currently associated under the term Digital Rights Management (DRM). The study revealed that the issues related to the DRM processes and components of DRM systems have been neglected from the perspective of the upstream of a...
- White papers 2004-04-08
- Digital Rights Management: Challenges and Issues in the Emerging Mobile Entertainment Ecosystem
- The upgrade of the digital wireless infrastructure from narrowband to broadband is a recent phenomenon that has raised new issues as it becomes possible for consumers to access and share downloadable content. Critical issues, fissures and challenges are surfacing in the value chain, as distribution modes for music and other...
- White papers 2004-03-15
- The Long March to Interoperable Digital Rights Management
- This paper discusses interoperability of digital rights management (DRM) systems. The paper starts by describing a basic reference model for DRM. The cause of interoperability is served by understanding and circumscribing what DRM is "n the whole." The paper then outlines and contrasts three different approaches to achieving interoperability. One...
- White papers 2004-01-28
- Legal Policy and Digital Rights Management
- This article provides introduction to the legal and policy dimensions of digital rights management (DRM). It explains the laws and treaties that affect DRM, and outline the trends and policy debates which will lead to changes to these laws in the future. It reviews the problems associated with the digital...
- White papers 2003-12-11
- Formalisation Of Digital Rights Management: A Negotiation Scenario
- One key issue when dealing with multimedia content systems is taking care of possible Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) management and distribution associated to the content itself. Although many of them already exist, their use is not easy, due to, between other reasons, a lack of interoperability of solutions. MPEG, through...
- White papers 2003-06-25
- The Economic Evaluation of Alternatives to Digital Copyright
- This paper explores the economic differences between a system of consumer-regulating copyright based on "digital rights management", and alternatives based on public funding. It argues that the distinctions are sufficiently intricate that they elude any simple modeling technique. Instead, this paper attempts a semi-analytic comparison which weighs a set of...
- White papers 2003-05-30
- DRM as an Enabler of Business Models: ISPs as Digital Retailers
- Digital Rights Management technology (DRM) makes this model possible. The paper outlines that some particular applications of DRM have been controversial, so two preliminary comments are warranted. First, though DRM is young, it and its legal status are formally recognized already, worldwide, in at least 39 nations that have become...
- White papers 2003-02-10
- Evaluation of Digital Rights Management Systems
- Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a technology that is being developed as a protection against the illegal distribution of copyrighted online material such as music or documents. In 1999, with the launch of Napster, the situation became very alarming for rights holders. Although Napster's service was ruled against in court...
- White papers 2003-01-28
- Digital Watermarking: A Technology Overview
- Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems play a critical role in describing, identifying, trading, protecting, monitoring and tracking the Intellectual Property (IP) rights of digital multimedia content distributed on the Internet. Digital watermarking techniques can be used in DRM systems for establishing ownership rights, tracking usage, ensuring authorized access, preventing illegal...
- White papers 2002-11-18
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