Digital Rights Management: The Problem of Expanding Ownership RightsElsevier Science, 2007 M01 31 - 180 pages Digital Rights Management examines the social context of new digital rights management (DRM) technologies in a lively and accessible style. It sets out the scope of DRMs in non-technical terms and then explores the shifts that DRM has produced within the regime of protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs). Focusing on the social norms around the protection of IPRs, it examines the music industry and software development sector to ask whether the protections established by DRM are legitimate and socially beneficial. Using these key examples to establish a more general argument, the books central conclusion is that rather than merely re-establishing threatened rights, the development of DRM has extended the rights of intellectual property owners, and that such an extension violates previous carefully balanced political compromises as regards the maintenance of the public domain. |
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... power and importance of information and knowledge that we now lived in a ' weightless world ' . On one hand , such claims were dealt a blow when the rise in energy ( and specifically , oil ) prices in the last few years led to ...
... power and importance of information and knowledge that we now lived in a ' weightless world ' . On one hand , such claims were dealt a blow when the rise in energy ( and specifically , oil ) prices in the last few years led to ...
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... power of raising prices by enabling the creation of scarcity . ( Plant , 1934 : 31 ) The protection of rights for ... knowledge and information . How is property in knowledge usually justified ? In contemporary debates the assertion that ...
... power of raising prices by enabling the creation of scarcity . ( Plant , 1934 : 31 ) The protection of rights for ... knowledge and information . How is property in knowledge usually justified ? In contemporary debates the assertion that ...
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... knowledge ) then the imposition of property rights , and the mechanical denial of access , introduces this scarcity and establishes significant social and political power as regards the benefits from use . Conventionally when ...
... knowledge ) then the imposition of property rights , and the mechanical denial of access , introduces this scarcity and establishes significant social and political power as regards the benefits from use . Conventionally when ...
Contents
software | 27 |
Notes | 33 |
Digital rights management the norms of copyright | 46 |
Copyright | |
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