Digital Rights Management

A Guide to Digital Rights Management

"This Guide to Digital Rights Management (DRM) has been developed to provide a source of ideas, information and resources to assist creators, producers and traders with the management of their content in the digital environment." Written by AIMA for DCITA

Added: 12 June 2003
Reviewer's Note:
The Guide consists ofsix parts. Each part can be read online or downloaded in PDF format.

Digital Rights Management (DRM) Architectures

"Digital Rights Management poses one of the greatest challenges for content communities in this digital age. Traditional rights management of physical materials benefited from the materials' physicality as this provided some barrier to unauthorized exploitation of content. However, today we already see serious breaches of copyright law because of the ease with which digital files can be copied and transmitted." Renato Iannella, IPR Systems, D-Lib Magazine, June 2001

Added: 25 May 2002
Reviewer's Note:
One of the very valuable articles available at the D-Lib Magazine

Digital Object Identifier System

"The Digital Object Identifier (DOI®) is a system for identifying and exchanging intellectual property in the digital environment. It provides a framework for managing intellectual content, for linking customers with content suppliers, for facilitating electronic commerce, and enabling automated copyright management for all types of media. Using DOIs makes managing intellectual property in a networked environment much easier and more convenient, and allows the construction of automated services and transactions for e-commerce."

Added: 25 May 2002
Reviewer's Note:
Developed by the DOI Foundation

The Open Digital Rights Language Initiative

"provides the semantics for a Digital Rights Management expression language and data dictionary pertaining to all forms of content. The ODRL is a vocabulary for the expression of terms and conditions over content including permissions, constraints, obligations, conditions, offers and agreements with rights holders. The ODRL is positioned to be extended by different industry sectors (eg ebooks, music, video, mobile, learning objects, software, etc) and to be a core interoperability language."

Added: 25 May 2002
Reviewer's Note:
ODRL is freely available and has no licensing requirements

XrML The digital rights language for trusted content and services

"XrML - eXtensible rights Markup Language - is the Digital Rights Language of choice. XrML provides a universal method for securely specifying and managing rights and conditions associated with all kinds of resources including digital content as well as services."

Added: 25 May 2002
Reviewer's Note:
A licence will be required to use XrML!