Rights Management in Digital Media Content: A Case for FCC Intervention in the Standardization Process.
John Matthew Williamson · eYLS (Yale Law School) · 2005
INTRODUCTION 311 I. BACKGROUND: THE INDUSTRY’S NEED FOR A DRM STANDARD 313 A. Profits and Protection of Media Content 313 B. Copyright 314 1. Copyright Law in the Analog World 316 2. The Betamax Case 318 C. The Digital Revolution and its Effect on Media 319 1. Consequences for the Market for Media 320 D. Digital Piracy 320 E. Legal Reactions to the Digital Revolution 322 F. Technological Reactions to the Digital Revolution 323 1. The Need for DRM Compliant Hardware 324 II. THE MECHANICS OF STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT: CASE STUDIES 326 A. Ethernet 327 1. A General Note on Open, Non-Proprietary Collaboration 327 2. The Development of Ethernet 328