3. Digital Rights Management poses one of the
greatest challenges for content communities in
this digital age.
Digital Rights Management (DRM) focused on
security and encryption as a means of solving
the issue of unauthorized copying, that is, lock
the content and limit its distribution to only
those who pay.
INTRODUCTION
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4. Functional Architecture
The overall DRM framework suited to building
digital rights-enabled systems can be modeled
in three areas
Intellectual Property (IP) Asset Creation
and Capture
IP Asset Management
IP Asset Usage :
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6. Contd…
The Functional Architecture stipulates
the roles and behavior of a number of
cooperating and interoperating modules
under the three areas of Intellectual
Property (IP):
The IP Asset Creation and Capture
module .
The IP Asset Management module .
The IP Asset Usage module.
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7. Information Architecture
The Information Architecture deals with how the
entities are modeled in the overall DRM
framework and their relationships.
The main issues that require addressing in the
development of a DRM Information model
include:
• Modeling the entities
• Identifying and describing the entities,
and
• Expressing the rights statements
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12. DRM standardization is now
occurring in a number of open
organizations. The Open EBook
Forum [OEBF] and the MPEG
group are leading the charge for
the eBook and multimedia sectors.
Digital Rights Management is
emerging as a formidable new
challenge, and it is essential for
DRM systems to provide
interoperable services.
Solutions to DRM challenges will
enable untold amounts of new
content to be made available in safe,
open, and trusted environments.
Industry and users are now
demanding that standards be
developed to allow interoperability so
as not to force content owners and
managers to encode their works in
proprietary formats or systems.
Conclusion
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