Digital Rights Management: Business and Technology

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Digital rights management (DRM) is a set of business models and technologies that allows media companies to protect their intellectual property -- and profit in the online world. Cowritten by DRM pioneer William Rosenblatt, this lucid primer outlines the state of DRM today for media executives and IT decision-makers, covering business models (such as subscriptions), core technologies (watermarking, encryption, authentication), standards (such as XrML), vendors, and more.

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A good attempt at explaining a difficult topic.......2003-04-12

As noted below, DRM consists of legal, technical and business issues and anyone trying to provide an overview of all three has their work cut out for them. Particularly in the early chapters of the book, these authors give it a good try.

Unfortunately, the biggest problem with the book is that they try to treat the technology standards and products available on the market, and the market is just changing too quickly for that to be for more than just a superficial look. Too much of what they discuss is already outdated, out-of-business, merged with other offerings or otherwise defunct. Not the fault of the authors, just the nature of the DRM market.

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Not a good read if you already understand the basic issues and hope to get more insight into the technology-- go to the web for that.

Absolutely a good read if you want to become familiar in a basic way in the underlying issues. Part 1 of the book is really useful reading even to help people who are pretty familiar with the topic structure their thinking.

Still waiting for DRM to be explained........2002-11-12

The problem with the several texts available on digital copyright or Digital Rights Management is that the topic demands a treatment from at least three different perspectives: namely legal, technical and business. There are several books that try to tackle the topic of digital copyright from a legal viewpoint, and this one is clearly coming from a technical perspective. Legal issues are covered, but rather superficially. More surprisingly the crucial business issues and models that are driving interest in DRM are barely mentioned and there is no dicussion of the business models that are working and those that are not. Disappointingly many of the technical issues are also fudged in a way that will leave non-technical audiences confused, and those who are following technical developments frustrated. The fact is that, technically at least, DRM is an area where approaches, technologies and standards are all in rapid development and the industry has failed to converge on any single direction. This book's effort to offer a comprehensive review of available products means that it risked redundancy before it was published, as many of the companies and technologies have ceased to be relevant. What the world still needs is a book on DRM that reviews the law, discusses the business models (and consumer needs) that are driving developments, and describes fundamental approaches in a way that will remain relevant whatever product Microsoft may impose on us all next year. Unfortunately this book intrigues enough to encourage one to want to know more about DRM, but never really provides the answers.

Very good market overview.......2002-05-06

This book combines a business strategist's view of the DRM space with a sound explanation of the underlying technology, and also explains how both have evolved over the past decade. It's rare to find both views in any book, particularly one about an emerging software market. Usually, insights into markets like this book provides require purchasing research reports and speaking one-on-one to industry insiders. So, save yourself $10,000 and three weeks of work ... buy the book.

Great reference.......2002-04-08

In an ever changing business landscape, I find nothing more comforting than relevant information. As an web application developer I used to always have questions about legality and DRM that nobody could answer. This book has a permananent spot on my shelf!

By far the best treatment of DRM I've ever run across.......2002-04-06

DRM is a confusing topic, and this one of the clearest expositions of DRM (or most any other technical topic!) that I've ever run across. It demystifies a complex subject with simple straightforward language, describes key vendors and organizes them accurately into categories, and even contains a wealth of useful materials such as checklists to help the customer determine business/technical requirements, evaluate vendors, etc.

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Digital rights management (DRM) is a type of server software developed to enable secure distribution - and perhaps more importantly, to disable illegal distribution - of paid content over the Web. DRM technologies are being developed as a means of protection against the online piracy of commercially marketed material, which has proliferated through the widespread use of Napster and other peer-to-peer file exchange programs.

With the flourish of these file exchange programs, content owners, creators and producers need to have a plan to distribute their content digitally and protect it at the same timea seemingly impossible task. There are numerous books dealing with copyright, eBusiness, the Internet, privacy, security, content management, and related technical subjects. Additionally, there are several research papers, and almost daily newspaper and magazine articles dealing with digital piracy. However, there are only a few books and documents that bring these together as a basis for profitable exchange of digital content. Digital Rights Management can help content providers make money by unifying the confusing array of concepts that swirl around current presentations of DRM in newspapers and business publications.

* Learn from an award winning author and Emmy nominee
* Perfect for the non-technical decision maker, content owner or DRM implementation manager
* Details all the options from legal to technical

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Proofread?.......2007-04-28

The content in the book is current, useful and well researched.
However, in 40 years of reading, I have never seen a book so poorly proofread. There are spelling errors, bad grammar, incomplete sentences and such throughout the book... I will be writing the author to see if the next time she wishes to write a book, she'd like for me to proofread it free of charge... I feel badly for her. Somebody dropped the ball big time in an otherwise fine and useful work.

good overview of DRM ideas.......2006-10-17

Van Tassel gives an overview of current DRM methods. At a level understandable by a non-engineer or programmer. She describes why DRM is so important to many media companies. Or, in fact, to any company that has assets in digital form. If you've never dealt with DRM, her book is a useful introduction.

Some more technical readers might want to check out an alternate book - "Multimedia Security Technologies for DRM" by Zeng et al. That book goes far deeper into the mechanics of the various DRM methods.

The 45 Revolver: Epic Story & The Hero's Journey Through Artistic Entrepreneurship & Technology 101: Ideals Are Real--A First Person Shooter (FPS) Guide ... and Indie Digital Rights Management (DRM)

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The 45 Revolver: Epic Story & The Hero's Journey Through Artistic Entrepreneurship & Technology 101: Ideals Are Real--A First Person Shooter (FPS) Guide ... and Indie Digital Rights Management (DRM)
Elliot McGucken
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ASIN: 1930151098

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Inspired in part by Dr. E's sold-out class at UNC Chapel Hill, this book packs a semester's worth of knowledge, and ten years of running profitable internet companies, into a single volume. He's spoken the Harvard Law School content management and digital rights management for artists, and he's shared panels with the Register of Copyrights; his disseration on an artificial retina for the blind won a Merrill Lynch Innovations grant, and now Dr. E's creating a brand new curriculum to lay the context for a renaissance in business, art, and culture.

This book can save you thousands in education and make you millions in business, but those are side benefits. The real value lies in the spiritual wealth this book bequeaths, from which all other wealth derives. The pages, inspired by the classics, will set you free to become rich beyond your wildest dreams while pursuing Truth's Beauty.

Dr. E will lead you on Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey--on the high adventure of artistic entrepreneurship. It is not for the faint of heart.

Upon joining the Fellowship, you will be given the One Idea--your light saber, One Ring, and Colt .45 revolver--Ideals are Real. Dr. E will show you how to leverage the One Idea in the realms of technology, law, business, and art, en route to making your passion your profession and your avocation your vocation.

Over time, all paper currencies have an average value of zero. But art, based upon classical ideals, is priceless. Dr. E will teach you to call the bluff.

With pensions evaporating and wealth and homes being tranferred to Wall Street while the government puts you in debt and prints money, Dr. E sees that the best investment is yourself--your passions and your dreams. Want to set up your own stock photography shop? Want to get your neighborhood art gallery online? Want to launch a record label? Want to write, publish, and market your book? Want to shoot an indie feature and distribute it? Rock out with Dr. E--he'll show you how.

With humanities departments deconstructing the Great Books and classics, and MBA programs training students to write TPS reports and play silly games at Enron, Andersen, and Worldcom; with Hollywood and NY publishing in decline, and video games longing for deeper meaning--for souls, Dr. E rides into town, outnumbered and surrounded on all sides.

But he's armed with the One Idea.

Ideals are Real.

And just as Dante wrote The Inferno in exile, just as Socrates was sentenced to death for Truth's beauty, just as the United States Constitution was written not by lawyers, but by rebels and renegades who took the Great Books and Classics to heart, Dr. E Will show you how to build immortal brands, sustainable ventures, and lasting art. You gotta take it to heart--Ideals are Real.

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The book provides a comparative and comprehensive analysis of the current technical, commercial and economical development in digital media. It describes the impact of new business and distribution models, the current legal and regulatory framework, social practices and consumer expectations associated with the use, distribution, and control of digital media products. In particular, the author analyzes the anti-circumvention provisions for technological protection measures and digital rights management systems enacted in the United States and in Europe, and their impact on consumer protection policy. The book concludes with an overview of the effects, and the possible solutions, under U.S. and EU law, posed by using contractual arrangements to expand intellectual property rights.

Digital Rights Management and Content Development: Technology drivers across the book production supply chain, from creator to consumer

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Digital Rights Management and Content Development: Technology drivers across the book production supply chain, from creator to consumer

Manufacturer: Common Ground Pub
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ASIN: 1863350772

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At the beginning of the 21st century our ability to create content, in its many and diverse forms, and to circulate that content through media both new and old, has been greatly enhanced by the development ad widespread use of new technologies.

But the ease with which that dissemination can be achieved brings with it its own particular set of problems. The rights of creators to an appropriate reward for their efforts and the rights of consumers to free and open access to certain kinds of educational and cultural content must both find protection within a system that potentially allows open and free access to anything stored within it.

The digital rights management solution to this dichotomy required development of sophisticated techniques such as granularisation of content, automation of content management and microtransactions within the ecommerce field, to keep in balance the rights of all creative and commercial participants along the supply chain from the creator to the consumer. This book discusses the impact of digital content creation technologies on the world of writing, the ownership of the writing and the commercial management of that writing.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies, EC-Web 2005, held in Copenhagen, Denmark in August 2005.

The 39 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 139 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on ontologies, process modelling, and quality of data in e-commerce, recommender systems, e-negotiation and agent mediated systems, business process/strategic issues and knowledge discovery, applications, case studies, and performance issues in e-commerce, Web usage mining, e-payment approaches, security and trust in e-commerce, and web services computing.

E-Commerce and Web Technologies: 8th International Conference, EC-Web 2007, Regensburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2007, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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E-Commerce and Web Technologies: 8th International Conference, EC-Web 2007, Regensburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2007, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 3540745629

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies, EC-Web 2007, held in Regensburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2007 in conjunction with Dexa 2007.

The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on recommender systems, business process / design aspects, mobile commerce, security and e-payment, Web services computing / semantic Web, e-negotiation and agent mediated systems, and issues in Web advertising.

Public Sector Information In The Digital Age: Between Markets, Public Management And Citizens' Rights

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Public Sector Information In The Digital Age: Between Markets, Public Management And Citizens' Rights

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ASIN: 1843763834

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This timely volume reviews key issues and developments in the controversial area of public sector information (PSI). It addresses the fundamental themes, challenges and conflicts surrounding the access to, and use of, PSI in the new digital era. Using detailed empirical analyses and case studies from across Europe and the USA, the authors focus on the crucial policy, economic, legal and social issues. The public sector is the biggest single producer and holder of information including administrative and government documents, regulatory texts, political data and public registers. The authors demonstrate that this huge store of information is a key resource for a broad range of stakeholders such as citizens, civic organizations, private businesses and public sector agencies. They argue that charging the marginal cost of dissemination, a policy favored in the US, will lead to optimal economic growth in society and will far outweigh the immediate perceived benefits of aggressive cost recovery. They illustrate how open government information policies create significant economic advantages to society and are beneficial in both the short and long term for the general public, the private sector and for governments themselves. This is one of the first books devoted to addressing the new challenges of access to PSI and the role of public policy. The international contributors, including leading experts from Europe and the US, have produced an informative and coherent resource that will be of interest to scholars, students and decision-makers working in the fields of public policy, economics, political science, law and information technology.

3 paths to IT upgrades: the "right one" depends on the organization, as shown in these cases. (Cover Story).(information technology): An article from: Behavioral Health Management

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3 paths to IT upgrades: the "right one" depends on the organization, as shown in these cases. (Cover Story).(information technology): An article from: Behavioral Health Management
Monica E. Oss , and Stacey L. Biggins
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This digital document is an article from Behavioral Health Management, published by Medquest Communications, LLC on January 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1806 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: 3 paths to IT upgrades: the "right one" depends on the organization, as shown in these cases. (Cover Story).(information technology)
Author: Monica E. Oss
Publication: Behavioral Health Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2002
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Volume: 22 Issue: 1 Page: 16(5)

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All the Right Stuff.: An article from: CMA Management

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All the Right Stuff.: An article from: CMA Management
Kristin Doucet
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Volume: 74 Issue: 4 Page: 26

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