Digital rights management is an industry technology that protects various forms of digital content such as financial reports, online digital music, electronic books, product specification, etc. DRM is essentially an access and usage control technology in the application level. Most people have heard of software licensing and digital library lending services but perhaps not related it with Digital Rights Management (DRM). The purpose of DRM is to prevent unauthorized access and redistribution of digital content and to restrict the customer from specific use activities like copying, sharing, and cut & paste.
To better understand digital rights, one must remember that plays, books, pictures, films, music and other digital content are subjected
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These security features can only be achieved by having strong cryptographic products available and those not restricted by government. Electronic commerce application should provide confidentiality and integrity to realize its social and economic benefit (TORRUBIA, MORA, & MARTI, 2001). Encryption is often the most effective way of providing confidentiality and integrity to the users of the application. Today online purchases of software, audio and video have become an important part of electronic commerce. The major obstacle is that digital media distribution and copying threatens intellectual property rights. This tends to affect the revenue of the intellectual property owners. Digital rights management is there to safeguard the interests of the intellectual property owners. DRM features include; copy control, access control, usage metering and traceability (TORRUBIA, MORA, & MARTI, 2001). DRM uses encryption to authenticate users and provide access control by separating the encrypted content from the keys required to decrypt the …show more content…
Some content providers restrict any copying, printing and sharing of their content through the license key and device application used.
Digital rights management in Online Music Industry
In the online music business digital rights management is seen as a technology that encapsulates, controls and manages content. DRM can be on a server or desktop computer of the consumer. When the DRM technology is on the server it requires the user to be online to purchase digital music which is referred to as the tethered model and this model is used by Intel, Microsoft, and IBM (Kwok, 2002). All the licenses for distribution and management are provided by a centralized license services center.
The other model is the untethered whereby the user can purchase digital music offline. In this case a local DRM service center is installed on the user’s desktop computer. The untethered model is used to promote super-distribution of music. Though the untethered model can cause delays and interruption in translation of the music because it requires highly complex applications to run a local DRM service center (Kwok,
1a) The internet is compared to provide an interpretation of the first amendment protection as it was not present at the time of passing protection laws as a communication medium to find a common ground because it has similarities and as well as differing natures, values, abuses and dangers to the library, television and public places which the law treats differently. Libraries: It requires the libraries to enable the filter to Internet access for adults as well as children if they want to receive funds for Internet hookups.
Success in the music business is a thing of wonders isn 't it? From the ongoing fame to having people looking up to you, it 's something really special. But things are making the music world different. Instead of people buying the albums from the musicians, the internet services allows them to stream it which doesn 't cost a penny. Now the musicians are receiving less while the customers are getting their music for free.
For Amazon EC2 Access Management, Compliance Monitoring, Detailed Invoices. For Microsoft Azure FedRAMP, HIPAA Compliant, ISO 27001 Certified, Network. (MICROSOFT, 2014) Task 2 Case Studies Spotify on AWS Spotify is an online music service offering instant access to over 16 million licensed songs. The application is available for Windows and Mac OS operating systems, as well as multiple mobile device platforms. Spotify users can choose between a free, ad-supported version and a monthly subscription that allows users to enjoy music without ads on a wide range of mobile devices.
This trial is on Walt Disney Studios vs. Faden on the work Professor faden made to inform people on copyright, fair use and infringement. They are battling over copyright and fair use on this video. Walt Disney Studios claims that Faden’s work is copyrighted and is suing for infringement. But Professor Faden claims that he followed all the rules on copyright and he thinks it is fair use. “ Defendence you make take your stands,”The judge says in an assertive voice.
It is still a crime to use torrent sites to download movies and considered to be an act of piracy. The author also stated that when using
Copyright is an intellectual property right which is legally enforceable. According to the concept in the Copyright Act, a copyrighted work prevents stealing and infringing of a person’s original creations. These are the following works that can be copyrighted under the Copyright Act; - Dramatic works (scripts,
People have discovered ways to gain free access to intellectual properties via the internet. Piracy has seemingly become a threat to the economy of companies that own an intellectual product because it causes them to lose their profit. Internet Piracy gives people access to media without having them pay and allows them the comfort of just downloading a file or even streaming from the internet. Piracy is considered by most as morally wrong and degrading the quality and reputation of certain intellectual properties. Internet piracy is an immoral act which has been thought of as equal to stealing.
Piracy might affect the income of workers involved in the making of movies. Workers in the lower rungs of the entertainment industry may experience cutting overhead (Straus, 2013). They are basically people who work behind the scenes for the movies. According to Loeb (2010), those who work behind the scenes derive a substantial portion of their health, welfare, benefits, and retirement contributions from the revenue that their work generates from secondary markets which consist of foreign distribution, DVD sales, and airings on television.
According to RIAA statistics, the blossom of the industry began with the comparison of offline and online sales. With the popularity of digital, music industry focused on new strategies to develop their companies. From the above analysis it can be understood that the Music industry in UK is flourishing. But it still may be assumed difficult target for a new company. Internet and new technologies are developing every day and decline more and more new entrants in the market.
Although it has produced a new form of piracy, the advantages of music streaming far exceed the disadvantages. Indisputably, music streaming is the future of the music industry. The projected value of the music streaming industry in 2020 is 16.5 billion USD (P. Schoenfeld Asset Management LP (PSAM), 2015) is and that suggests how the music streaming business will only get bigger from here. The music industry has to adapt and adjust to the development of music streaming in order to maximise its potential and yield the most benefits. As Leon C. Megginson so aptly put, “It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.”, without the ability to adapt, anyone would be left
While a few illegal downloading sites still remained, few were used due to the poor quality of what was being put on them. But now in the age of music streaming, “Streaming has won. Nielsen Music reported that streaming doubled over the past year, from 165 billion songs to 317 billion songs. Digital downloads fell by 12.5 percent. CD sales continued their long decline”(Maney 45).
It provides the security to avoid illegal copying of records through not allowing to be copied a record without the permission of the author. For example, A complete
5 – Main risks going forward for Amazon.com are to loose its competitive advantage because of opportunities that Internet offered to its competitor : low prices, deliver, costumer’s service, etc. Moreover, if the business develops, it may encounter logistical problems and limits : geographical and logistical constraints (energy, delivery and connection and some contries) and legislative constraints (censorship, taxes and state agreement : Corea, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, etc). Founded in 1994, Amazon started as an online bookstore and quickly became popular as it received high marks on several Internet rankings. Today, Amazon.com, Inc. is the world's largest online retailing company headquartered in Seattle, WA
Most people today, own one at least one technological device which could be one of the access platforms that form online channels the company may apply for their digital marketing to achieve profitability and retention of customers. Chaffey and Ellis-Chadwick (2012) state that a digital marketing strategy is constantly needed to provide a sense of direction for an organization’s online marketing activities so that they integrate with its other marketing activities and support its overall business goals. According to Parise et al.
Digital watermarking techniques are one of the better solutions for both image authentication and Copyright protection. Digital watermarking is a technique of embedding a digital code into a cover