A Review: Digital Rights Management Sustainable Development in e-Commerce
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paper_title: XrML -- eXtensible rights Markup Language

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XrML (eXtensible rights Markup Language) is an XML-based language for digital rights management (DRM), providing a universal method for specifying rights and conditions associated with the use and protection of digital content and services. Originally developed at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), the specification facilitates the creation of an open architecture for digital rights management of content or services. It can be integrated with both existing and new DRM systems. XrML is a general-purpose rights language, agnostic to the type of resource, platform, media, or business applications. The latest release, XrML 2.0, expands the capabilities of a digital rights language to enable developers to establish the rights and conditions needed to access web services in addition to digital content. It also contains additional capabilities in the areas of extensibility, security, and life cycle management. Recent actions in several standards bodies, most notably MPEG, OeBF and OASIS, have positioned XrML to become the world wide industry standard for a digital rights language. This paper provides a brief introduction to XrML, its data model, usage and extensibility as it applies to digital media, multi-tier content distribution and XML-based healthcare information.
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paper_title: Digital Rights Management: Business and Technology

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From the Publisher: ::: Digital rights management, or DRM, is a set of business models and technologies that enables you to protect - and profit from - your text, image, music, or video content in today's digital world. In this unique guide, three digital media experts show you step-by-step how to find the right DRM solution for your organization, whether you're an IT decision-maker or an executive on the content side. After explaining DRM antecedents, paradigms, and legal foundations, the authors walk you through today's DRM technologies and standards - and offer sound, practical advice on how to match your needs with the right DRM products, services and vendors. ::: Author Biography: Bill Rosenblatt is president of GiantSteps/Media Technology Strategies, a consulting firm (www.giantstepsmts.com) whose clients include content providers, digital media technology companies, and investment firms. Bill bridges the gaps between business and technology in the digital media world. He brings content providers expertise in areas such as content management, rights management, streaming media, and cross-media publishing, and he provides technology vendors with market strategy, business development, and product management services. ::: Before founding GiantSteps, Bill was chief technology officer of Fathom, an online content and education company backed by Columbia University and other scholarly institutions. He has been a technology and new media executive at McGraw-Hill and Times Mirror Company, and he served as manager of strategic marketing for media and publishing at Sun Microsystems. He was also one of the architects of the Digital Object Identifier (DOI), a digital rights management related standard. ::: Bill is a frequent speaker and writer on media technology topics. He is the author of several technical books and has written articles for EContent magazine, Salon, CNN Interactive, Journal of Electronic Publishing, and other periodicals. He is president of Princeton Broadcasting Service, Inc., a member of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) Digital Rights Management Working Group, and a member of the advisory boards of Seybold Seminars and several startup companies. ::: Bill holds degrees from Princeton University and the University of Massachusetts. He lives in New York City. ::: Bill Trippe is president of New Millennium Publishing (www.nmpub.com), a Boston-based consulting practice formed in 1997. Bill has more than twenty years of technical and management experience in electronic publishing, content management, and SGML/XML and related technologies. He brings a unique blend of strategic and hands-on knowledge of the products and trends that are shaping the publishing and content technology marketplace. In addition to his role at New Millennium, Bill is associate editor of The Gilbane Report, the XML columnist for Transform, and a regular contributor to the magazine EContent. ::: Stephen Mooney is founder of Stephen Mooney & Associates, a consulting company advising technology providers, rightsholders, aggregators, and others on new approaches to intellectual property licensing. Steve has more than fifteen years of consulting, negotiating, sales and licensing experience in the publishing and information industries. He concluded numerous license agreements with Fortune 500 corporations while with Copyright Clearance Center, and was vice president of business development at Yankee Rights Management. He chairs several standards committees, including DOI-EB (Digital Object Identifier for E-Books), the Identifier Working Group of the Open E-Book Forum (OEBF), and the SIIA DRM Working Group. He is a regular speaker at conferences on rights management issues. Steve is admitted to the bar in New York and Massachusetts.
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paper_title: DRMAA : DRM Adaptable Architecture

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The Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a collection of technologies which protect the copyright holder's revenue by protecting their digital works, based on a secure architecture and respect of law, against any illegal use. We studied in this paper, different DRM architectures. It has been noted that they are restricted to audio and video contents and the corresponding licenses, which define their terms of use, are related to the player software and/or the equipment. We propose a DRM Adaptable Architecture DRMAA which widened the field of application of this technology to the other types of digital contents (XML, text and executable) and where the license could concerns the user, the player software or the equipment. In addition to be a consumer, this architecture allows the user to be a producer of digital content.
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Title: A Review: Digital Rights Management Sustainable Development in e-Commerce

Section 1: INTRODUCTION
Description 1: Introduce the problem of piracy in online copyrighted works, and explain the concept and significance of Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies.

Section 2: RELATED WORK
Description 2: Discuss the historical development and early implementations of DRM systems, detailing specific cases like Content Scrambling System and Microsoft's Protected Media Path.

Section 3: APPROACHES OF THE DRM ARCHITECTURE
Description 3: Explore different architectural approaches to DRM, including Proxy Architecture for DRM service, Digital Content Distribution Management Architecture (DCDMA), and SUN Architecture-DREAM.

Section 4: DRM ARCHITECTURE AND THEIR EFFICACY
Description 4: Evaluate the effectiveness of various DRM architectures and present a comparative analysis in tabular form.

Section 5: ACCEPTABLE DRM ARCHITECTURE
Description 5: Describe the features of a proposed DRM Adaptable Architecture (DRMAA) that supports multiple file formats and dynamic licensing.

Section 6: CONCLUSION
Description 6: Conclude by summarizing the reviewed DRM architectures, their current limitations, and how the adaptable architecture addresses these issues.