Consumers' Attitudes to Digital Rights Management (DRM) in the German Trade eBook Market

Loebbecke, Claudia; Bartscher, Philipp; Weiß, Thomas; Weniger, Sandra

doi:10.1109/icmb-gmr.2010.16

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“…Transfer of rights were also considered important, but modification and annotation were not considered essential. Loebbecke, Bartscher, Weiss, and Weniger () found that in the German trade e‐book market, consumers preferred DRM‐free e‐books to DRM‐enabled ones. Alakurt and Teker's () study indicated that Turkish undergraduate students are willing to pay for digital products that offer flexible usage rights.…”

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The end of ownership?: An investigation of users' preferences and perceptions of ownership configurations

Zhu

Cho

2018

Proc. Assoc. Info. Sci. Tech.

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The notion of ownership of digital media content is complicated and fragmented, because of the interplay of intellectual property law, personal property rights, and contractual arrangements. Drawing from the existing literature on theoretical analysis of ownership, we present a framework with multiple ownership configurations of digital content. Using the online survey method, we investigated US users' perceptions of ownership of digital content, users' perceptions of the importance of various digital rights, and their preferences for different ways of obtaining media content. The results of this study show that downloadability and the continuity of rights together determine users' sense of ownership, and digital rights management (DRM) restrictions play a minor role in users' perceptions of ownership. Ownership, especially owning something physically, is still important to users with regard to books. With music, ownership is also important, but access, especially through the subscription model, is gaining in importance. Movie content shows a different pattern where users generally favor the access model over ownership. The study also found that users' perceived importance of digital rights varies with their preferences for obtaining different types of content.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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The end of ownership?: An investigation of users' preferences and perceptions of ownership configurations

Zhu

Cho

2018

Proc. Assoc. Info. Sci. Tech.

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“…Research conducted in Poland (Krawczyk et al , 2015; Kukla-Gryz et al , 2021) revealed direct connection between unauthorized downloading of books and their overpricing. Study of German readers' behavior (Loebbecke et al , 2010) showed that they favored unprotected e-books; according to them, e-book prices were too high and the process of acquiring e-books was too difficult. While investigating moral and ethical issues of young people in the USA when using digital content, Flores and James (2013) discovered that although the respondents were acknowledging negative consequences of music piracy, they were feeling mostly unapologetic.…”

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Causes and consequences of unauthorized use of books: readers, authors, and publishers' perspective

Gudinavičius

Grigas

2021

OIR

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PurposeThe current study aims to identify and explore causes and consequences of unauthorized use of books from readers', publishers', and authors' points of view. The case of Lithuania also assessed, especially historical background (banned alphabet, book smuggling, theft as the social norm in Soviet times) of the country.Design/methodology/approachAiming for more understanding why readers, authors and publishers are using or not using technology for unauthorized access of books, technology acceptance model approach was used, a total of 30 respondents (publishers, authors and readers) were interviewed in semi-structured face-to-face interviews and thematic analysis of collected qualitative data was conducted. Interviews were coded in English with coding software for further analysis.FindingsFindings indicate that the main cause for the unauthorized use of books is a lack of legal e-book titles and acquisition options. This mainly points at publishers, however, instead of using unauthorized sources as opportunities for author promotion or marketing, they rather concentrate on the causes of unauthorized use of books which they are not in control of, including access to unauthorized sources, habits and economic causes. Some publishers believe that the lack of legal e-book titles is the consequence of unauthorized use of book rather than its cause.Originality/valueThis research contributed to the body of knowledge by investigating unauthorized use of books from readers', publishers' and authors' points of view which renders to have a better understanding of the causes and consequences of such behavior, as well as differences between these roles. The authors suggest that these causes lead to the intention to use and actual use of technology which is easier to use and which gives more perceived advantages – technology for unauthorized downloading and reading of books vs legal e-book acquisition options.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/OIR-03-2021-0133.

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DRMIBT: A New DRM Implementation Based on Virtual Machine

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Energy Procedia

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Consumers' Attitudes to Digital Rights Management (DRM) in the German Trade eBook Market

Cited by 8 publications

References 18 publications

The end of ownership?: An investigation of users' preferences and perceptions of ownership configurations

The end of ownership?: An investigation of users' preferences and perceptions of ownership configurations

Causes and consequences of unauthorized use of books: readers, authors, and publishers' perspective

DRMIBT: A New DRM Implementation Based on Virtual Machine

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