Digital Rights Management (DRM) involves the description, layering, analysis, valuation,
trading and monitoring of the rights over an enterprise’s assets; both in physical and digital form…

Multimedia content e-commerce is one of the hottest topics in today’s Internet. Since the MP3
format appeared, back in early 90’s, digital music popularity has never stopped growing, …

Among Internet users, the social networks have gained a huge popularity. Millions of users
are part of some online social network in order to share their own experiences and content …

This chapter highlights the need for using copyright protection tools in our digital
transactions. The main tools of copyright protection, such as cryptography, data hiding, and …

Concern in digital libraries has turned from, How will we digitize materials, store them and
make them available? to, How do we manage the rights along with the materials? Before we …

Disclaimer The views expressed by the authors of this article are their own and may not
necessarily be taken to be those of either the Dutch Data Protection Authority or the National …

The recent popularity of digital information sharing through networking requires new technologies
to protect intellectual property rights or digital copyrights. The concept of digital rights …

In the paper, we introduce a mobile software agent-based scheme for digital rights management
targeted for personal mobile devices . The goal of the proposed scheme is to provide a …

Technological tool characterizes cultural progress, constituting not an end, but a means
through which to pursue man’s objectives. The relationships between technology and society …

… that is produced is continues to work, the new challenges that are posed by the digital format
in terms of IPR, suggest that the usage of an appropriate open digital rights management …