DRM

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Introduction

DRM - Digital Rights Management (or Digital Restrictions Management depending on your perspective)

Resources:

• The Open Rights Group DRM news/blog entries
• Cory Doctorow on DRM
• Linux Australia campaign page
• Wikipedia entry on DRM
• Australian Digital Alliance

Definitions:

• Any technology used to protect the interests of owners of content and services (such as copyright owners). Typically, authorized recipients or users must acquire a license in order to consume the protected material—files, music, movies—according to the rights or business rules set by the content owner.

http://www.microsoft.com/security/glossary.mspx

• stands for digital rights management, a technology used to protect digital products from copyright infringement. When a customer buys a DRM-protected e-book, the e-book is encrypted specifically for that customer. To view the e-book, the customer must activate his or her reader software, a process that verifies the identity of the software owner and provides an electronic key for decrypting the encrypted files.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/11074951

• A technology that allows content owners to determine and control who and how users can view content such as media files on the Internet.

http://media.ucsc.edu/glossary.html

• It stands for Digital Rights Management, which uses usually uses some form of encryption to protect intellectual property from copyright infringement.

http://www.bookzonepro.com/glossary.html

• DRM refers to the administration of rights in a digital environment. DRM solutions may use technologies to protect files from unauthorised use, as well as manage the financial transaction processing, while ensuring that rights holders are compensated for the use of their intellectual property.

http://www.europe4drm.com/l_menue/glossary/glossary.htm

• Digital Rights Management (DRM) covers the description, identification, trading, protection, monitoring and tracking of all forms of rights usages over both tangible and intangible assets including management of rights holders.

http://www.planetebook.com/mainpage.asp

• DRM is a term that has many meanings. To some, it is the "Management of Digital Rights", to others it is the "Digital Management of Rights". Generally speaking, DRM is a system that is used to "manage rights". Depending on the context, manage rights include:

http://www.xrml.org/reference/xrml_terms.asp

• Acronym for Digital Rights Management. DRM is a system protecting intellectual property rights on digital media so that it may not be freely distributed.

http://www.musicdownloadinsider.com/glossary.html

• Digital Rights Management' is a web-based licencing system for audio and video files. The creator of a DRM-controlled media file also creates a license object that is registered via a special Media Licence Server and is required by anyone trying to play the file on their PC. By restricting access to the licence, you also restrict the ability of users to share and copy the media file itself - since it cannot be played without the licence. ...

http://bandfoundry.draftlight.net/resources/dictionary.php

• A variety of systems that enable the copyright owner of a piece of intellectual property (such as music, video, or text) to specify what someone else can do with it. Typically, this is used to offer downloads without having to worry that the user is freely distributing the file over the Web without any compensation to the copyright holder.

http://www.cdlabs.co.uk/glossary/

• Digital Rights Management. DRM companies such as MediaDNA, SoftLock, Digital Owl, and ContentGuard sell technologies for encrypting and distributing eBooks and controlling the ways in which they can be used by buyers. For example, a publisher might pay a DRM company to package an eBook so that it can be shared, but each new reader must pay the purchase price.

http://www.how-to-do-it-ebooks.com/glossary.htm

• Virtuosa integrates Digital Rights Management technologies (DRM). These technologies allow the secure electronic download and streaming of audio and video files through digital networks. They also allow copyright information to be included in the audio file for accurate copyright management.To protect copyrights, the DRM technologies also embed anti-copy systems that prevent files to be duplicated, redistributed, converted or moved to other PCs. ...

http://virtuosa.com/glossary.htm

• The acronym DRM can stand for: *Digital Rights Management, also called Digital Restrictions Management*Digital Radio Mondiale*Direct Rendering Manager is a Linux kernel module that gives direct hardware access to DRI clients.*Direction du Renseignement Militaire, the Directorate of Military Intelligence of France*Dynamic Rate Management

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRM (thanks to Google DRM Definition)