1. INTRODUCTIONDEFINITIONSAPPLICATIONSCONCLUSION Copyright © KATZAROV S.A.24/01/2007 Digital Rights Management (DRM) and Software Products Olivier Sacroug European Patent Attorney Katzarov SA

2. INTRODUCTIONDEFINITIONSAPPLICATIONSCONCLUSION Copyright © KATZAROV S.A.24/01/2007 Software piracy worldwide –Increased with the Internet –Difficult to trace (no need of a physical support to transfer a software product)

3. INTRODUCTIONDEFINITIONSAPPLICATIONSCONCLUSION Copyright © KATZAROV S.A.24/01/2007 A functional definition of DRM: –The identification and description of intellectual property, rights pertaining to works and to parties involved in their creation or administration (digital rights management); –The (technical) enforcement of usage restriction (digital management of rights).

4. INTRODUCTIONDEFINITIONSAPPLICATIONSCONCLUSION Copyright © KATZAROV S.A.24/01/2007 Requirements –Identification (unique identifier of the work) –Clear description (Metadata) –Usage rules

5. INTRODUCTIONDEFINITIONSAPPLICATIONSCONCLUSION Copyright © KATZAROV S.A.24/01/2007 Right management vs. Content management –Content management: includes creating, manipulating, fixing, storing, transferring, performing, rendering and disposing of the content. –Rights management: all activity conducted in relation to the rights governing the content management activity.

6. INTRODUCTIONDEFINITIONSAPPLICATIONSCONCLUSION Copyright © KATZAROV S.A.24/01/2007 DRM tools –Identify the work, the right holder –Describe the content –Allow use according to the rules

7. INTRODUCTIONDEFINITIONSAPPLICATIONSCONCLUSION Copyright © KATZAROV S.A.24/01/2007 Examples –Encryption –Persistent association (watermarks, digital signature) –Metadata –Payment technologies

8. INTRODUCTIONDEFINITIONSAPPLICATIONSCONCLUSION Copyright © KATZAROV S.A.24/01/2007 Examples (Software) –Game consoles (Nintendo, Sony Playstation, …) –Microsoft software (Genuine certificate verification) –Trial use of a software for a limited period of time –Online registration to activate the software

9. INTRODUCTIONDEFINITIONSAPPLICATIONSCONCLUSION Copyright © KATZAROV S.A.24/01/2007 Forbidden by the law: –Act of circumvention –Tools for circumvention of Access Control and Copyright Control TMs

10. INTRODUCTIONDEFINITIONSAPPLICATIONSCONCLUSION Copyright © KATZAROV S.A.24/01/2007 Issues: –Low level of standardisation –Often no management of exceptions to the author’s rights (copies for private use, cryptographic research, reverse engineering, etc.)

11. INTRODUCTIONDEFINITIONSAPPLICATIONSCONCLUSION Copyright © KATZAROV S.A.24/01/2007 Conclusion –DRM solutions are more and more used for software products –No standard solutions yet, resulting in poor or no interoperability

12. INTRODUCTIONDEFINITIONSAPPLICATIONSCONCLUSION Copyright © KATZAROV S.A.24/01/2007 Questions?

13. INTRODUCTIONDEFINITIONSAPPLICATIONSCONCLUSION Copyright © KATZAROV S.A.24/01/2007 Olivier Sacroug Katzarov SA European Patent & Trademark Attorneys Geneva and Basel admin@katzarov.com Tel: +41 22 342 66 30 Fax: +41 22 342 66 15 www.katzarov.com Thank You!