The answer to the machine is in the machine: Technical devices for copyright management in the digital era1
Thomas Hoeren · Information & Communications Technology Law · 1995
Multimedia means multilegia. The creation of a CD‐Rom product needs a number of licenses for the implementation of pictures, texts and music. The process of getting all the necessary rights constitutes a big logistic adventure that can be overcome only via technical means. In the following article (based upon a report written by the author for the European Commission/DG XIII) Thomas Hoeren describes the present technical devices for license management in the digital era. These devices differ from mere identification systems and copyright clearance tools to complex electronic copyright management systems. The use of all these instruments is however related different legal problems ranging from data protection to questions of evidence.