The World Beyond Digital Rights Management - Softcover

Jude Umeh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1902505875 ISBN 13: 9781902505879

Publisher: British Computer Society, 2007

Synopsis

The rapid advances in digital technology have meant that digitised content is now readily available to most people. 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: Media, technology and DRM; Stakeholders and industries; Rights, models and issues; DRM technologies; DRM standards; Enterprise DRM (ERM); and, Future trends in DRM. 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.

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Review:

Umeh succinctly explains how the IT, business models, and standards combine and interact, and how the industry is now maturing to take account of such rapid change. He presents a superb example of how technology is developing to fulfil a business requirement , and how it can adapt and innovate to drive transformation and change in an entire industry. --John Beaver, IT Training, Autumn 2008.

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"The challenge of getting and using informatiion is close to being solved. Unfortunately a new challenge has arisen: proving who owns what information, and who can modify original data - i.e. Digital Rights Management. It's a topic we all need to grasp and this book definitely makes a good starting point" - Andy Mullholland, Global Chief Technology Officer, Capgemini.

Rapid advances in digital rechnology mean that digitised content is now readily available to millions of people around the world. Content owners and commercial stakeholders face a constant battle to protect their intellectual property and commercial rights. The World Beyond Digital Rights Management examines the issues behind this batter, what the current solutions to the problem are, and assesses what the future might hold. Media, technology and DRM Stakeholders and industries Rights, models and issues DRM technologies and standards Enterprise DRM (ERM) Future trends in DRM

Jude Umeh is a consultant and technical architect with the Global Telecom, Media and Entertainment team at Capgemini. His areas of expertise include DRM, music, media, e-business consultancy and project management.

About this edition

• Publisher: British Computer Society
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1902505875
• ISBN 13: 9781902505879
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288