Digital Rights Management

2014 ◽  
pp. 229-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tarek Gaber
Keyword(s):  
Digital Rights Management ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Digital Rights ◽  
Digital Contents ◽  
Rights Management ◽  
History Of ◽  
Main Components ◽  
Main Component

In the era of the information technology and the rapid growth of the Internet access, e-Commerce technologies become very crucial as new and effective ways are needed to manage, transact, distribute, and exploit digital contents (e.g. audio and video). The proliferation of these contents has created a need for Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems. DRM, in addition to other security measures, is essential for the management and the protection of digital property, which is the main component of an e-Commerce system. This chapter highlights the need for DRM as a tool facilitating e-Commerce. It also provides the history of developing DRM and the main components of a DRM system. It also gives an overview of the existing DRM system used in e-Commerce systems. It then discuss some open issues in the current DRM system to support consumers' rights, so supporting e-Commerce business.

Digital Rights Management

2013 ◽  
pp. 69-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tarek Gaber
Keyword(s):  
Digital Rights Management ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Digital Rights ◽  
Digital Contents ◽  
Rights Management ◽  
History Of ◽  
Main Components ◽  
Main Component

In the era of the information technology and the rapid growth of the Internet access, e-Commerce technologies become very crucial as new and effective ways are needed to manage, transact, distribute, and exploit digital contents (e.g. audio and video). The proliferation of these contents has created a need for Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems. DRM, in addition to other security measures, is essential for the management and the protection of digital property, which is the main component of an e-Commerce system. This chapter highlights the need for DRM as a tool facilitating e-Commerce. It also provides the history of developing DRM and the main components of a DRM system. It also gives an overview of the existing DRM system used in e-Commerce systems. It then discuss some open issues in the current DRM system to support consumers’ rights, so supporting e-Commerce business.

A Digital Rights Management System for Educational Content Distribution

2009 ◽  
pp. 196-213
Author(s):  
Tom S. Chan
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Content Distribution ◽  
Digital Rights Management ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Educational Content ◽  
Digital Rights ◽  
Education Environment ◽  
Rights Management

While delivering content via the Internet can be efficient and economical, content owners risk losing control of their intellectual property. Any business that wishes to control access to, and use of its intellectual property, is a potential user of Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies. Traditional DRM has a passive one-way downstream consumption of content from producer to consumer focus primarily concerns digital rights enforcement. This model does not translate well to the education environment where openness, informal decision making, sharing of ideas, and decentralization are valued. Collaboration and multiple authorships are common in the educational environment, as is the repurposing and modification of digital content used for teaching and learning. A DRM system for educational content distribution must be substantially more sophisticated and flexible than what is available right now to gain support in the educational community.

Digital Rights Management for E-Content and E-Technologies

2008 ◽  
pp. 570-579
Author(s):  
Yingge Wang ◽  
Qiang Cheng ◽  
Jie Cheng ◽  
Thomas S. Huang
Keyword(s):  
Digital Rights Management ◽  
Distribution Channel ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Consumer Electronics ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Products ◽  
Digital Rights ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Rights Management

Digital rights management (DRM) provides digital content creators and owners with a range of controls over how their information resources may be used. It is a fairly young discipline yet is becoming increasingly important as digital content can be copied and distributed so easily that the piracy of them is growing critical. In addition, with the rapid adoption of the Internet as an e-content delivery channel, complex DRM systems are required to protect the digital content besides the distribution channel. Risking their intellectual property (IP) rights, many major e-content providers are relying on DRM to not only protect the packaged digital products, but also to promote the e-content market over the Internet. As a multidisciplinary technology, DRM has advanced innovative research and development in various fields such as biometrics, watermarking, security protocols, smart-card technology, forgery detection, and secure collaboration and data sharing. Commercially, DRM provides the e-content market with a significant impetus to grow, where secure e-content distribution is essential. Despite its short history, many DRM tools have already been developed by IBM, Sony, Real Networks, Intertrust, and Thomson. These products need be compatible with existing standards for contents, consumer electronics, and often times, different DRM systems. Standardization efforts in industry are ongoing to ensure the interoperability of DRM products and services. Another important impetus is the legal and regulatory framework. Technical measures provide an effective hurdle for limiting abuse, but legal actions against violators can prevent organized piracy from infringing. With a properly integrated legal, technological, and commercial framework, we expect that the DRM products and services will greatly foster the growth of the e-content market that is eagerly awaited by content providers and consumers. Without proper DRM technologies and laws, the creative industries that create digital products such as DVDs, business software, music recordings, theatrical films, and digital TV programs will suffer from piracy and would be reluctant to support Web-based commerce. The socioeconomic impact of DRM is huge. In this article, DRM techniques using cryptography, data hiding, and biometrics are discussed. Also covered are the standardization issues, emerging trends, and challenges in DRM-related technologies, commerce, and legislative regulations.

Digital Watermarking for Digital Rights Management

2009 ◽  
pp. 484-500
Author(s):  
Farid Ahmed ◽  
Cecilia Gomes
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Digital Watermarking ◽  
Digital Rights Management ◽  
Digital Rights ◽  
Digital Contents ◽  
Rights Management ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Video Broadcast ◽  
Audio Video

With the remarkable growth of Internet and multimedia applications, production and distribution of digital media has become exceedingly easy and affordable. Applications such as distance education, e-commerce, telemedicine, digital library, and live audio/video broadcast activities require distribution and sharing of digital multimedia contents. Consequently, maintaining the quality of service of the applications and the rights of the content owner as well as enforcing a viable business model among the producer, consumer, and distributor of digital contents has become an increasingly challenging task, leading to a contentious area called digital rights management (DRM). This chapter presents how digital watermarking (DWM) technology can addresses part of this DRM problem of secure distribution of digital contents.

Exploiting P2P in New Media Distribution

2013 ◽  
pp. 479-487
Author(s):  
Marcus Mansukhani ◽  
He Ye ◽  
Ma Zhaoran
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
Digital Rights Management ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Rights ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Media Distribution ◽  
Rights Management ◽  
The Moment

P2P is currently the most contentious area of Interactive Digital Media on the Internet. It continues to grow in popularity at a phenomenal rate while media producers are seemingly stuck in a cycle of who needs to be prosecuted to prevent this form of piracy, and the majority feel that content should be paid for either to own or to rent with a Digital Rights Management time bomb. An alternative method of paying for the licence to download is presented by two self styled media futurists, and they conclude that it is easier for the industry to adapt to a market based on something that continues to feel like free rather than trying to enforce a model that is clearly not working at the moment and brands hundreds of millions of Internet users criminals. One proposal is that a US$5 monthly licence would produce an income of US$3 billion to the music industry. We explore how this could be extended to the digital media.

Integration of digital rights management into the Internet Open Trading Protocol

2003 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 413-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.H Kwok ◽  
S.C Cheung ◽  
K.C Wong ◽  
K.F Tsang ◽  
S.M Lui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Rights Management ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Rights ◽  
Rights Management

Digital Rights Management for E-Content and E-Technologies

2011 ◽  
pp. 210-216
Author(s):  
Y. Wang ◽  
Q. Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Digital Rights Management ◽  
Distribution Channel ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Consumer Electronics ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Products ◽  
Digital Rights ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Rights Management

Digital rights management (DRM) provides digital content creators and owners with a range of controls over how their information resources may be used. It is a fairly young discipline yet is becoming increasingly important as digital content can be copied and distributed so easily that the piracy of them is growing critical. In addition, with the rapid adoption of the Internet as an e-content delivery channel, complex DRM systems are required to protect the digital content besides the distribution channel. Risking their intellectual property (IP) rights, many major e-content providers are relying on DRM to not only protect the packaged digital products, but also to promote the e-content market over the Internet. As a multidisciplinary technology, DRM has advanced innovative research and development in various fields such as biometrics, watermarking, security protocols, smart-card technology, forgery detection, and secure collaboration and data sharing. Commercially, DRM provides the e-content market with a significant impetus to grow, where secure e-content distribution is essential. Despite its short history, many DRM tools have already been developed by IBM, Sony, Real Networks, Intertrust, and Thomson. These products need be compatible with existing standards for contents, consumer electronics, and often times, different DRM systems. Standardization efforts in industry are ongoing to ensure the interoperability of DRM products and services. Another important impetus is the legal and regulatory framework. Technical measures provide an effective hurdle for limiting abuse, but legal actions against violators can prevent organized piracy from infringing. With a properly integrated legal, technological, and commercial framework, we expect that the DRM products and services will greatly foster the growth of the e-content market that is eagerly awaited by content providers and consumers. Without proper DRM technologies and laws, the creative industries that create digital products such as DVDs, business software, music recordings, theatrical films, and digital TV programs will suffer from piracy and would be reluctant to support Web-based commerce. The socioeconomic impact of DRM is huge. In this article, DRM techniques using cryptography, data hiding, and biometrics are discussed. Also covered are the standardization issues, emerging trends, and challenges in DRM-related technologies, commerce, and legislative regulations.

An Application of Digital Rights Management in Network Learning System

2013 ◽  
Vol 409-410 ◽  
pp. 1644-1648
Author(s):  
Dong Mei Yu
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
Functional Model ◽  
Digital Rights Management ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Structure Model ◽  
Digital Rights ◽  
Network Learning ◽  
Rights Management

With the Internet expanding quickly and there being a tremendous underlying market for digital content distributing, it brings a new technology that protects digital content from pirating and destroying--digital rights management (DRM),DRM not only protects content by encrypting, but also protects the content creator and owners rights and interests. The article primarily studies the multimedia courseware DRM in the distance network learning system. It firstly introduces the DRM based theory, then presents a DRM structure model and functional model, which is very important for the ulterior development.

Digital Rights Management System in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asad Abbas ◽  
Anam Fatima ◽  
Kenneth Khavwandiza Sunguh ◽  
Anders Avdic ◽  
Xuehe Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Digital Rights Management ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Digital Rights ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Secure Information ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Digital Contents ◽  
Rights Management ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
International Laws

In the era of technology, the Chinese government wants to adopt the latest technologies and interlink their processes to secure information of all stakeholders. Digital rights management (DRM) is one form of computerized system of copyright to protect access and stop infringement of digital contents for commercial purposes. For this article, the authors used a secondary literature review approach to first explore the development of intellectual property rights (IPR) in China and then they moved further to highlight the challenges and opportunities of DRM application and its use. The article concludes that China, as an emerging knowledge based economy, is trying to become a part of international laws and treaties. For this they should abide with international laws, treaties and also amend and enforce their own local laws, acts, rules and regulations based on IPR by adopting the latest technology such as DRM. Finally, the authors provided recommendations to offset the challenges together with existing opportunities.

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