Digital rights management : the problem of expanding ownership rights
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Digital rights management : the problem of expanding ownership rights
（Chandos information professional series）
Chandos Pub., 2007
- : hardback
- : pbk
Available at 4 libraries
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University of Tsukuba Library, Library on Library and Information Science
: pbk021.2-Ma9810008019047
Note
Bibliography: p. 147-159
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Setting the scene
- Intellectual property and social norms
- Digital rights management: Two trajectories
- Digital rights management: Two cases for consideration
- Digital rights management, the (over)protection of rights and the expansion of open alternatives.
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