Digital Rights Management in Digital Libraries: an introduction to technology, effects and the available Open source tools Dr. N. S. Harinarayana Reader, DOSLIS, University of Mysore, Mysore Dr. C.S. Somu Professor – Business, Law, SDMIMD, Mysore Sunil, M.V. Librarian, SDM IMD, Mysore

Objective: 1. An overview on development and application of Digital Rights Management (DRM) in the digital library scenario. 2. Effect of DRM on the trinity of digital libraries – the creators, the content and the consumers. 3. Open source projects on DRM

What is DRM Technology? Digital Rights Management refers to the technologies and processes that are applied to describe the digital content and to identify the user. The legal context for DRM is copyright law.

DRM in DL: Finger Print Reference Files Metadata (Identifier) Fingerprint Generator Fingerprint Database Fingerprint Generator If match found return: - Metadata - Confidence Test File Compare Populating the Database Content Identification

DRM in DL: Watermarking Watermark Data (File ID) FileWatermark Encoder Distri- bution Watermark Decoder Rendering Application File ID

DRM in DL: Digital Signature – the hand written signatures used to regulate the access to digital content. Digital signature can be achieved when the party adding the metadata – digitally signs the metadata, and is known to be authorized to add the metadata.

DRM and Creator: With DRM technology – *Exclusive control and regulatory technology on the content *Establishing network with the user and promotional activities *Enjoy the right under law, license and contract *Earn income *Protection from copyright infringement *Predictable and secure environment for transmission of work

DRM and Content: With DRM technology – *Provide adequate identification and description tools (i.e., metadata) *association of the content with anti-piracy environment *effective use or share of information will diminish *increase in the rate of repetitive and unupdated content

DRM and Consumer: With DRM technology – *restriction at the cost of the consumers’ rights *highly inflexible to the end user to make fair use of the works. *prevent the users from using copyrighted material for ‘fair use’ Indian Copyright Act, 1957 Sec.52 (a) and Sec.52 (b). *series of concentric levels of control computing environment, paid material, activities of user *threat to personal information data and privacy

Open Source and DRM : Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) initiative - OpenIPMP is an open source DRM for MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 - Open SDRM is an open source DRM solution

Open Source and DRM : Open Media Commons (Sun Microsystems Laboratories) - DRM InterOPERAblity Framework - Project DReaM Other Projects * Open media platform and open DRM systems * The PachyDRM Digital Rights Management solution

Conclusion : ‘recognizing and accommodating the rights of parties on both sides (Creator and Consumer) of the fair use equation, such an implementation might well be the first system of “digital rights management” truly worthy of the name’ Timothy (2006 Conclusion : ‘recognizing and accommodating the rights of parties on both sides (Creator and Consumer) of the fair use equation, such an implementation might well be the first system of “digital rights management” truly worthy of the name’ Timothy (2006)

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