Digital Rights Management
Subtitle: Technological, Economic, Legal and Political Aspects (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Contributors: Eberhard Becker (Editor); Willms Buhse (Editor); Dirk Günnewig (Editor); Niels Rump (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: January 12, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 805
ISBN-13: 9783540404651
Subjects: Data security & data encryption; Internet; Computers - Computer Security; United States; Business/Economics; Computers; General; Data protection; Copyright and electronic data; Networking - General; Operating Systems - General; Security - General; Computers / Security; DMCA; DRM; DRM systems; copyright protection; data security; digital content protection; digital millenium copyright act; Computer security; Copyright and electronic data processing
First sentence: There is music on the Internet! - a realization that was news five years ago is common knowledge today.
Description: Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a topic of interest to a wide range of people from various backgrounds: engineers and technicians, legal academics and lawyers, economists and business practitioners. The two conferences on the issue held in 2000 and 2002 in Berlin, Germany, brought these people together for fruitful discussions. This book continues this process by providing insights into the three main areas that DRM in?uences and that DRM is in?uenced by: technology, economics, and law and politics. Looking at the ?rst results of the two conferences we would like to emphasize three aspects. Firstly, DRM is a fairly young topic with many issues still - resolved. Secondly, there is still an acute lack of objective information about DRM and the consequences of using (or not using) DRM in our Information Society. And, ?nally, only open discussions amongst all the interested parties and people from di?erent scienti?c and practical backgrounds can help to create a foundation on which DRM can actually become useful.