Digital Rights Management: Protecting and Monetizing Content...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 280 pages
• Published by: Focal Press
• Edition: 1st Edition April 14, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0240807227
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0240807225
• Book Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Weighs: 1.2 pounds

Product Review
"The author, who specialises in digital and interactive media, sets out the arguments with a view to readers being able to make informed decisions on the issues before them." -Book Shelf

Product Description
Digital rights management (DRM) is a type of server software developed to enable secure distribution - and perhaps more importantly, to disable illegal distribution - of paid content over the Web. DRM technologies are being developed as a means of protection against the online piracy of commercially marketed material, which has proliferated through the widespread use of Napster and other peer-to-peer file exchange programs.

With the flourish of these file exchange programs, content owners, creators and producers need to have a plan to distribute their content digitally and protect it at the same timea seemingly impossible task. There are numerous books dealing with copyright, eBusiness, the Internet, privacy, security, content management, and related technical subjects. Additionally, there are several research papers, and almost daily newspaper and magazine articles dealing with digital piracy. However, there are only a few books and documents that bring these together as a basis for profitable exchange of digital content. Digital Rights Management can help content providers make money by unifying the confusing array of concepts that swirl around current presentations of DRM in newspapers and business publications.

* Learn from an award winning author and Emmy nominee
* Perfect for the non-technical decision maker, content owner or DRM implementation manager
* Details all the options from legal to technical

Reader Reviews
Van Tassel gives an overview of current DRM methods. At a level understandable by a non-engineer or programmer. She describes why DRM is so important to many media companies. Or, in fact, to any company that has assets in digital form. If you've never dealt with DRM, her book is a useful introduction. Some more technical readers might want to check out an alternate book - "Multimedia Security Technologies for DRM" by Zeng et al. That book goes far deeper into the mechanics of the various DRM methods. Comment | | (Report this)