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Digital Rights Issues Hightlights DRM concerns for libraries.
Papers
11 Jan 2006
Digital Rights Management: A Guide for Librarians
Digital Rights Management: A Primer (two parts)
These articles are excerpted from the book Digital Rights Management: Business
and Technology. They provide and introduction into DRM including a discussion
on its history.
Part 1 – http://www.pdfzone.com/news/10864.html
Part 2 – http://www.pdfzone.com/news/100870.html
Fair Use and Digital Rights Management: Preliminary Thoughts on the (Irreconcilable?)
Tension between Them.
Authored by Fred von Lohmann, Sr.
Intellectual Property Attorney at the Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF) discusses the tension between DRM and Fair Use.
http://www.eff.org/ip/drm/fair_use_and_drm.html
Licensed to Bill: Big Media Wants you to Pay for What you Read, Watch and
Hear – and Keep Paying. Digital Rights Management Technology Will Make
Sure you Do.
(Wired, October 2001).
This article argues that entertainment industry will use DRM technologies to
drive their venue and expand their business at the expense of consumers.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.10/drm.html
Why Rights management is Wrong (and What to do Instead).
This paper was a presented at the The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)Workshop
on Digital Rights Management, January 2001. The authors argue that DRM based
on enforcement is not possible. Instead they propose a licensing scheme for
digital rights modeled after shareware licensing.
Key Challenges in DRM: An Industry Perspective.
This paper was presented at the Association for
Computing Machinery Workshop on DRM, 2002. The paper presents that creating
an attestable trusted computing base, trust management engines and autorization
languages are the three key challenges facing development, deployment and acceptance
of DRM systems.
http://crypto.stanford.edu/DRM2002/abstract-bal.doc
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