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The New Emergent Multimedia Content and Digital Rights Management

THE TURKISH ONLINE JOURNAL OF DESIGN, ART AND COMMUNICATION, 2012

Culture in the digital environment, after a drastic reduction in the cost of storage and editing, allowed remixing and faster sharing than in the analog age. The result of this new content is no longer published or presented through traditional forms known in the analog era. The old gatekeepers are no longer gatekeepers. Thus, copyright, once valid, conflicts with the dynamics of the digital culture. Digital Rights Management, used by a company as a tool, is an option to control and to guarantee economic interests. How can it become sustainable in order to create, to consume, to publish and to share multimedia content in this landscape?

Definition of Mechanisms that Enable the Exploitation of Governed Content

2006 Second International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-Channel Distribution (AXMEDIS'06), 2006

In this context, a key issue is the definition of mechanisms to enable the governed use of content thorough the B2B value chain and to specify the rights and constraints required for the rights expressions governing the digital objects. This paper presents relevant use cases where governed digital objects are manipulated and determine the rights and conditions that can be used in the licenses that will be issued to enable the manipulation of this governed digital objects.

Digital Rights Management and the Process of Fair Use

Harv. JL & Tech., 2006

School. I am grateful for the advice and input of many of my colleagues at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Jonathan Zittrain reviewed and commented on a much lengthier version of the manuscript that became this article. John Palfrey, Urs Gasser, and the members of the Berkman Center's Digital Media Project first pointed me towards research on technological accommodations for fair use. Derek Bambauer and Stefan Bechtold closely reviewed the manuscript and offered detailed critiques. The remaining flaws of this paper flow largely from my incomplete adherence to their suggestions, for which of course I have only myself to blame. 1. Although I will follow common usage herein in speaking of fair use as a "right," it is, more precisely, a statutory immunity from liability for acts that would otherwise amount to copyright infringement. For a conception that places users' rights at the center, rather than the periphery, of fair use analysis, see L. RAY PATTERSON & STANLEY W. LINDBERG, THE NATURE OF COPYRIGHT: A LAW OF USERS' RIGHTS ch. 14 (1991). See also id. at 103-06 (arguing that the wording of the fair use statute perversely works to enhance copyright holders' monopoly insofar as it is vague and drafted from the copyright holder's vantage point). The fair use doctrine is presently codified in 17 U.S.C. ยง 107 (2000). 2. An accessible overview of DRM technology is available in GARTNERG2 & THE BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, COPYRIGHT AND DIGITAL MEDIA IN A POST-NAPSTER WORLD 43-50 (2d ed. 2005), http:// cyber.law.harvard.edu/media/files/wp2005.pdf. The umbrella term "DRM" describes a class of technologies, the particulars of which vary from one implementation to the next. The details of a few particular implementations will be taken up below. See infra notes 59-65 and accompanying text (describing DRM mechanisms employed to protect digital music downloads and DVD video discs).

Digital Rights Management Metadata and Standards

Encyclopedia of Information Ethics and Security

In the digital world, several ways to organize and describe digital rights management (DRM) have been developed to enforce fairness and transparency in business trades. Metadata is beginning to serve this purpose as it attempts to address property rights, licensing, privacy, and confidentiality issues in a manner that ideally renders information or content easily accessible over a variety of platforms (Koenen, 2001). With the rise of security breaches and computer crimes such as identity theft, DRM is increasingly an issue for creators, content owners, purveyors, and consumers of all sorts of digital materials. This article defines what DRM is and explains how it is implemented into description and assessment in practical metadata schemes. DRM components are discussed, in particular those related to identification and rights expression. The two commonly used standards of describing DRM are discussed with Open Mobile Alliance and MPEG-21 (Rosenblatt, 2005). Issues and problems of met...

DRM: Doesn't Really Mean Digital Copyright Management

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000

Digital Rights Management standards are being developed for digital content. Yet the question remains, what problems are the systems trying to solve? Most systems are explicitly modeled on copyright (e.g., Piva, Bartolini, Barni, 2002) and others use the metaphors of piracy and author's moral rights to define or defend the design goals. Thus I begin my examinations of these systems with a utilitarian focus on the functions of copyright. I argue that the brilliance of copyright is that it provides attribution, access, and a definition of a fungible right thereby enabling epistemological surety and literacy, as well as a functioning financial information market. This paper is framed by the Western European experience of copyright. Yet by focusing on function rather than motivation the results may be more widely useful. After illuminating the functional aspects of copyright I then turn to various digital rights management systems. I examine each system with respect to its effect on the functions of copyright. I examine three systems: Giovanni, CSS, and the Adobe e-book. I conclude that while each has elements of copyright, none solves the set of problems which copyright solved for the dawn of the print age. I further argue that were information all free, the information market might still fail. Copyright and its Precursors Technological change has long been the driver for copyright, As a class, information property is the creation of the industrial revolution. Previously all information belonged to the Crown or to the Church. The ability for individual ownership of authorship and information rights were hotly contest and explicitly part of the debates and revolutions which raged across Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth century.

Comparative Study of Digital Rights Management Systems for Music and Text Files

International Mobile IPR Workshop: Rights Management OF Information Products ON THE Mobile Internet, 2003

Digital Rights Management Systems (DRMS) are seen by content providers as the appropriate tool to, on the one hand, fight piracy and, on the other hand, monetize their assets. Although these systems claim to be very powerful and include multiple protection technologies, there is a lack of understanding about how such systems are currently being implemented and used by content providers.