3 - Putting Digital Rights Management In Context

• Published in: Multimedia Security Technologies for Digital Rights Management pp. 51 - 72
• Main Author: Chiariglione, Leonardo
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Inc 2006
• ISBN: 9780123694768; 0123694760
• DOI: 10.1016/B978-012369476-8/50005-1

This chapter illustrates the digital media project (DMP) approach to digital media and the advantages for all users of the media value-chains, including creators and end-users. The DMP is a not-for-profit organization registered in Geneva in December 2003, which has been working with the goal of providing specifications of interoperable digital rights management (DRM) that accommodate traditional rights and usages (TRUs). The chapter quotes the definition of DRM as derived by the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) in the United States. DMP promotes the development, deployment, and use of digital media that safeguard the rights of creators to exploit their works, the wish of end-users to enjoy the benefits of digital media and the commercial interests of value-chain players to provide products and services. DMP has provided a definition of DRM interoperability: the technical ability of value-chain users to perform functions through interfaces and using protocols of open specification that can be independently implemented and provide predictable results. The chapter explains that media value-chains can change interoperable DRM specifications that support traditional rights and usages (TRU), and the role of DMP in making them available, and it elaborates DMP specifications phases I and II by using various illustrations and tables. The chapter summarizes that digital technologies are the combination of digital signal processing (DSP)–– that is, the ability to represent media in digital form, personal computers and digital devices with their ability to process the high bit-rate of digital media, and digital networks with their ability to move content inexpensively to anybody in the network.