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Title:
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THE ROLE OF ARCHITECTURE IN DRM VENDOR ECONOMICS |
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Author(s):
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Pramod A. Jamkhedkar , Gregory L. Heileman |
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ISBN:
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972-8924-06-2 |
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Editors:
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Nitya Karmakar and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2005 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Digital rights management, Layered architecture, Economics. |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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358 |
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Last Page:
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362 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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The advent of digital rights management (DRM) has lead to the creation of two generations of DRM technologies. First generation technologies largely focused on copy protection, and because of this, many erroneously equate copy protection and DRM. Second generation technologies; however, have begun to address a much broader scope of possibilities associated with the myriad of business opportunities that can be built around the more general idea of managing rights. Nevertheless, to date, DRM vendors have experienced very little success in the marketplace. Experts have postulated a number of reasons for the failure of this market to appear, some related to the business models, others to the technologies themselves, and still others related to the lack of standards in this area. In this paper we consider the role that the definition of a well-defined DRM architecture will have in addressing these problems. In particular, we consider how the specification of a minimal architectural framework can help to guide the development of DRM technologies, as well as help to identify the role that standards should play. |
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