Abstract
Digital rights management allows information owners to control the use and
dissemination of electronic documents via a machine-readable licence. Documents
are distributed in a protected form such that they may only be used with trusted environments,
and only in accordance with terms and conditions stated in the licence.
Digital rights management has found uses in protecting copyrighted audio-visual
productions, private personal information, and companies’ trade secrets and intellectual
property. This chapter describes a general model of digital rights management
together with the technologies used to implement each component of a
digital rights management system, and desribes how digital rights management
can be applied to secure the distribution of electronic information in a variety of
contexts.
Refereed
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