The World Beyond Digital Rights Management

The rapid advances in digital technology have meant that digitised content is now readily available to most people. However content owners and commercial stakeholders face a constant battle to protect their intellectual property and commercial rights. Jude Umeh outlines the issues behind this battle, current solutions to the problem and looks to a future beyond digital rights management. Content creators, law makers and businesses must learn to work together with end-users, in order to harness the fantastic opportunities presented in this book for a step change in global cultural evolution, and a stake in the evolving digital content economy. Aimed at stakeholders in digital content and rights management from: media and entertainment businesses, law & intellectual property protection, information technology & security, regulatory compliance, and consumers of digital content.