Digital Rights Management (DRM)
Sanjoy Kumar Paul · 2010
In this chapter, the author covers a very important concept, namely digital rights management (DRM), which is driven mostly by the content owners to preserve the “ownership“ of content and ensuring payment of “royalty” to the content creators based on use of respective content. Functional architecture of DRM was explained in the chapter with its three main aspects: intellectual property, asset creation and capture; IP asset management and IP asset usage. The chapter covers the modeling of content and digital rights expression. Finally, the steps involving license creation, license distribution and license acquisition together with content packaging, content distribution and content display (media playing) were described to explain how DRM works in real life. Controlled Vocabulary Terms content distribution networks; digital rights management; IP networks