Digital Rights Management using RFID in an E-Commerce Environment
Asso Hamzehei · 2008
Abstract: In this study, we introduce a framework of digital rights management based on RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), which is an automatic identification technology that can be used to provide electronic identity to an item/object and fingerprinting to protect digital content that is integrated into IOTP (Internet Open Trading Protocol), which is an interoperable framework for electronic commerce applications and services. We depict a framework in three phases, buying digital rights, using digital rights and transferring digital right. Also, we introduce a rights insertion, rights verification and rights transfer phase for IOTP. In such a system, an RFID tag is embedded in each digital medium. When such a medium, containing digital content, is purchased from merchant, information will be scramb led and stored in the embedded RFID tag and license administrator database. A compatible player with RFID reader and fingerprinting can authenticate license holder and check originality of digital medium, then play back the copyright protected content. Key words: Digital rights management • IOTP • RFID • Copyright • DRM • E-commerce