Digital Rights Management Implementation Research Articles

DIGITAL RIGHT MANAGEMENT: SAFEGUARDING COPYRIGHT IN THE CYBER ERA

Copyright infringement is commonly perceived as a private economic transgression, typically addressed through private legal actions and remedies. The advent of digitalization, encompassing copyrighted works such as text, music, and video, has enhanced unauthorized reproduction. The ubiquity of the Internet enables infringers to replicate thousands of copyrighted works at minimal cost.
 This article outlines the methodologies of digital rights management (DRM), clarifying its protective mechanisms and highlighting the adverse consequences associated with DRM implementation. As a technological framework, DRM is specifically engineered to prevent unauthorized copying of digital content. It assumes a pivotal role in safeguarding content exchanges within the digital landscape, thereby minimizing copyright infringement and plagiarism. The paper further explains potential future trends in copyright protection and the evolving landscape of DRM.

A Novel Approach towards EDRM System Design for Android Devices

digital content services gain importance in the mobile world, this paper proposes Digital Rights Management implementation for android devices. EDRM (Enterprise Digital Rights Management) system provides a novel solution to control access to documents such as Microsoft word, PDF and images from unauthorized copying, modification, and re- distribution. The work protects personal digital content like photos, documents etc. This modeled design aims how security is been provided to mobile devices using password mechanism, hash function and encryption and it is been tested using 100 samples. The individualization, flexibility, efficiency and practicability issues will be assured. The implementation permits the mobile user to conduct a preview-before-download activity and the digital content provider will not suffer from unauthorized mobile users accessing digital content. Proposed system uses a two level security using a Universal Unique Identifier, which is hashed using the (Simple Hashing Algorithm) SHA algorithm, then that key is used for the encryption of the content in Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm. The parameters used to measure system performance are response-time and throughput and were found out to be 0.022-sec/request and 45.54 respectively. Thus the paper achieves better security and faster processing. General Terms EDRM, Android, DRM, Digital, Security, Encryption

Copyright and Sales Distribution in the Era of Digitization: Evidence from the Music Industry

Digitization has been associated with ushering in Schumpeterian creative destruction in many media industries, such as music, books, movies, and newspapers, while also increasing the variety of products available for consumption. It has also increased the cost of copyright protection by significantly lowering the cost of distributing and storing information. One strategy used to address piracy concerns is the implementation of digital rights management (DRM) technology which allows digital publishers and copyright holders to exert control over how consumers use digital works, by making it difficult to reproduce and distribute copies of legally purchased digital products. However, the effect of DRM on sales is ambiguous because while its implementation has the potential to curtail piracy, it may also have impeded sales by imposing restrictions on how legitimate consumers use legally purchased products. I exploit a natural experiment where the recorded music industry removes digital rights management (DRM) on their entire catalogues of music at different times to examine whether “opening up” the industry’s copyright strategy increases music sales. Using a large sample of albums from all four major record labels that covers multiple genres and both tails of the sales distribution, I find that removing DRM increases digital music sales by 15%. Interestingly, the effect is more pronounced for albums at the left-tail of the music sales distribution, providing evidence that lowering copyright protection disproportionately impacts consumption in the Long- Tail.

A Cultural Approach to DRM Implementation in China

China's adoption of copyright has been problematic. Between the Confucian emphasis on sharing cultural materials and a more politically motivated treatment in both Imperial and Maoist periods, there has been little basis for the Western intellectual property rights approach favored by the West and pushed in international trade agreements. Some scholars have questioned whether Western property rights approaches are appropriate for all cultures, and have suggested that Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems can offer an alternative approach. Delays in the implementation of copyright procedures and processes in China, particularly in the electronic media provide an opportunity to develop new approaches. China has an opportunity to consider how DRM systems and approaches could be developed to enable an alternative approach to intellectual property rights consistent with traditional cultural values. This article considers how China could implement DRM approaches within the international copyright structure that could maximize social value and acceptance.

A System of Logo-Based Disclosure of DRM on Download Products

Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies are used in an increasing number of products and industries. In addition to contract law and copyright law, DRM provides a third means - a technological means - of limiting consumers' abilities to use products they buy. Because DRM has a separate enforcement mechanism than contract law, however, notice to consumers of the presence of DRM may yield different requirements than in other areas of law. Even should the law not provide such a notice requirement, however, there are many reasons, including economic, customer relations, and corporate goodwill reasons why companies that use DRM would be best served to provide adequate notice of the presence and implementation of DRM on their products. To date, advanced notice of the presence of DRM has been nearly nonexistent; notice almost always comes in the form of a clause in the End User License Agreement (EULA) provided to customers post-transaction. Providing comprehensive yet effective notice (likely to be acknowledged by the consumer) in advance of the transaction poses many difficulties. Yet actual and comprehensive notice, acknowledged by the end user, is necessary to undermine the economic, legal, and customer relations problems addressed above. This article recommends a uniform logo-based system to disclose the presence and details of DRM to consumers in advance of commercial transactions on downloaded products.

Constraints as Means of Controlling Usage of Geovirtual Environments

In this paper a concept for controlling the usage of geovirtual environments by means of constraints is developed. Constraints serve to improve the usability of geovirtual environments by guarding the navigation and interaction processes of users. In addition, they facilitate the implementation of Digital Rights Management for geovirtual environments. The presented approach distinguishes spatial constraints, structural constraints, and redistribution constraints. Several types of spatial constraints have been identified for navigation in geovirtual environments. To demonstrate their applications, this paper reports on using constraints in virtual 3D city models.

Why DRM Should be Cause for Concern: An Economic and Legal Analysis of the Effect of Digital Technology on the Music Industry

In response to piracy and online file trading, the music industry has begun to adopt technological measures, often referred to as digital rights management (DRM), to control the sale and distribution of music over the Internet. Previous economic analysis on the impact of DRM implementation has been overly simplistic. A careful analysis of copyright law and the microeconomic principles governing the music industry demonstrates that commentators have failed to account for factors relevant to the measure of social welfare within the music industry. This paper develops a more refined economic model that is better suited to accurately assessing how legal or technological changes like DRM will affect the music industry. Utilizing a refined economic model, the analysis suggests that the economic effects of implementing DRM technology are generally negative, albeit uncertain. While DRM implementation may inhibit piracy, facilitate price discrimination, and lower transactional costs, it will likely decrease social welfare by raising barriers to entry and exacerbating a number of existing market failures. Specifically, DRM implementation may facilitate the extension of monopoly pricing, decrease the amount of information available to potential music consumers, diminish the number of positive externalities, and raise artistic and informational barriers to entry into certain genres of music.

Digital Rights Management in Web Services

Technologies for Web services provide a new architecture for applications integration inside and outside the enterprise. With the flexibility provided by the Web services architecture, truly interoperable systems can be constructed. These features are favourable for the realization of business processes for Web application. In this paper, we study the feasibility and practicability of digital rights management (DRM) implementation with Web services, and further propose a watermark-based DRM implementation with Web services that can manage watermarks and deal with involved parties in a business transaction. The benefits of the proposed implementation include better coordination and interoperability among parties, a higher information privacy and security, and streamlining processes in business. These advantages overcome some major shortcomings in existing DRM implementation in e-commerce.