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This page highlights some studies of Digital Rights Management
(DRM) systems and issues.
It covers -
Works
on particular issues such as privacy, identification and rights
administration are noted in more detail elsewhere on this
site, particularly in the Publishing
and Intellectual Property guides.
introduction
Literature on DRM is increasingly rich, with a wide range
of studies on technological challenges (including signature
stripping and interoperability), administration (eg universal
identifier mechanisms such as DOI) and public policy (eg privacy,
security, contract and fair use).
We will be highlighting particular works in coming weeks
technical primers
As a starting point for considering DRM in theory and
practice we recommend four documents
Electronic
Rights Management & Digital Identifier Systems,
an article
by Daniel Gervais in The Journal of Electronic Publishing
Gervais' major report
of December 1999 for the WIPO Advisory Committee On Management
Of Copyright & Related Rights In Global Information
Networks
the February 2002 EC staff paper (PDF)
on Digital Rights: Background, Systems Assessment
2006 Digital Rights Management report (PDF)
by the UK Houses of Parliament All Party Parliamentary Internet
Group
Steganography
and other authentication technologies are discussed in our
Infocrime & Security guide.
For identifiers one starting point is the paper
by
Brian Green & Mark Bide on Unique Identifiers: a brief
introduction.
Peter Wayner's Digital Copyright Protection (Boston:
AP Professional 1997) is a sensible introduction to encryption
and document marking technologies, including the identification
of audiovisual content.
management studies
In considering past developments the final
report
of the UK ECMS Scoping Study (1996) and the
proceedings
of the 1994 conference on Technological Strategies for
Protecting Intellectual Property in the Networked Multimedia
Environment under the auspices of the Coalition for Networked
Information, the US Interactive Multimedia Association &
MIT may be useful. John Erickson's 1995 paper
on A Copyright Management System for Networked Interactive
Multimedia offers another perspective.
regulatory studies
Studies by parliamentary committees and researchers include
-
- UK
All Party Parliamentary Internet Group (APIG) 2006 public
inquiry into the issues surrounding DRM | here
- Australian
House of Representatives 2005 inquiry to protection measures
| here
- European
Commission Data Protection Working Party 2005 document on
data protection issues related to intellectual property
rights | here
Pointers
to the DMCA and other 'TPM-positive' legislation are provided
later in this note.
other legal writing
Some
of the privacy and other legal
questions posed by DRM are explored in Julie Cohen's 1997
Berkeley Technology Law Journal paper
Some Reflections on Copyright Management Systems &
Laws Designed to Protect Them, and Graham Greenleaf's
1999 paper
'IP, phone home!' - ECMS, (c)-tech, and protecting privacy
against surveillance by digital works. Cohen's 1996
paper
A Right to Read Anonymously: A Closer Look at Copyright
Management in Cyberspace, her 2003 DRM and Privacy
paper
and Declan McCullagh's 2005 Leave DRM Alone: A Survey
of Legislative Proposals Relating to Digital Rights Management
Technology and Their Problems (PDF)
are also suggestive
The discussion of DRM in Bernt Hugenholtz's Copyright &
Electronic Commerce - Legal Aspects of Electronic Copyright
Management (Amsterdam: Kluwer 2000) is particularly valuable.
The UK IMPRIMATUR project resulted in a 1998 report (PDF)
on Privacy, Data Protection and Copyright: Their Interaction
in the Context of Electronic Copyright Management Systems
by Lee Bygrave & Kamiel Koelman of the Amsterdam Institute
for Information Law.
advocacy organisations
Among sites maintained by advocacy organisations the following
are of particular interest, whether for the depth of information
or because argument/polemic has been influential in shaping
the perceptions among policymakers and other communities -
- ADA
DRM pages | here
- EPIC
DRM pages | here
- CDT
Broadcast Flag pages | here
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