An Evaluation of Multiple Perceptions of Digital Rights Management

Abstract

Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions have generated much interest because of their influence on the expectations and responsibilities of customers and related organizations. It was created to restrict piracy and enhance digital media sales, however, it is found to be unable to fulfill its objectives. We find the protections by DRM lack an understanding of the end user and the evolving nature of copyright and fair use. The potential motives for pirating appear to increase as DRM becomes more intrusive causing a conflict in the objectives of DRM. Thus, adjustments must be made to the current DRM model in order for it to become beneficial for both the producer and the consumer. Our research identifies the needs, desires, and responsibilities of the various DRM stakeholders so that a successful use of DRM technologies can be modeled: a challenge faced by the media industry.

Knowledge, Intellectual Capital, and Protection: A Literature Review

“…Table 2. Enterprise Accepting IP ownership [14,15,42,44] Asset recovery processes [46] Creation of communities of practices; culture of learning [20,29] Adopting KM processes [40] Knowledge contributions; business intelligence [28,36] Measuring IP and Knowledge value [5,6,21,28,30,31,33] Knowledge-Management governance [9,12,18,26,31] Patent law/regulations [4,5,11,27,32,35,41,45] The number of articles identified within the second category provided an indication of the need to make a connection between the overall management of knowledge within the organization and the ownership of intellectual property. Table 3 provides a look at the areas which are associated with the infrastructure within the organization such as data storage, collaboration systems, security concerns, and technology-based intellectual property.…”