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digital rights management

vr.tr.digital-rights-management · XCT.STA

Let an agent explain digital rights management and its forms, relay technologies, laws and debates from technology, legal and consumer sources with attribution, describe the specific practices the registry aliases name, and distinguish DRM from copyright itself, from copy protection in general and from access control, without providing circumvention guidance.

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Research draft, second pass

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Purpose and description

Let an agent explain digital rights management and its forms, relay technologies, laws and debates from technology, legal and consumer sources with attribution, describe the specific practices the registry aliases name, and distinguish DRM from copyright itself, from copy protection in general and from access control, without providing circumvention guidance.

Technologies and licensing arrangements that control the use, copying and distribution of digital content and devices, including always-online requirements, online passes for games, regional lockout of media and consoles, Tivoization that uses hardware restrictions to block modified software, enterprise Information Rights Management for documents and controlled digital lending by libraries; DRM is defended as protecting rights holders and criticised for restricting users, and circumvention is regulated by law.

What it is for: Controlling use of digital content.

It can be explain forms; relay technologies and laws; describe debates with attribution; decline circumvention guidance.

Distinguishing features

Technical and legal

Rights holder control

Consumer restrictions

Contested

What it looks like

Not a visible object; licences, encryption and locked devices.

Physical character

DMCA anti-circumvention: 1998 year - US

EU Copyright Directive: 2001 year - article 6

DVD region codes: 6 plus special count

How it is recognised

Control of digital content use

Always-online DRM, online pass, regional lockout, Tivoization, Information Rights Management, controlled digital lending

Copyright is the legal right; copy protection is one technique; access control is a general security concept

Related models

is a kind of - in registry terms

copy protection

is a kind of - in registry terms

access restriction

is a kind of - in registry terms

rights management

is protected by - such as the DMCA

anti-circumvention law

In practice

Families and kinds

encryption and licensing DRM for media

always-online and online pass DRM in games

regional lockout

hardware restrictions such as Tivoization

enterprise Information Rights Management

library controlled digital lending as a contested DRM-based practice

Standards and regulation

DMCA and EU Copyright Directive anti-circumvention rules

Consumer protection rules on DRM disclosure

Licences such as the GPLv3 addressing Tivoization

Failure modes and hazards

Agents providing circumvention guidance

Loss of access when DRM servers shut down

Partisan framing of DRM debates

Also called

online passalways-online DRMcontrolled digital lendingTivoizationregional lockoutInformation Rights Managementtelevision encryption

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What DRM is.

Definition.

Definition

Definition.

Definition

Definition.

  1. What is digital rights management, and how does it differ from copyright, copy protection and access control? definition
  2. Is the question about the concept, a practice, law or circumvention, which the model does not assist? boundary

Forms

Forms.

Forms

Forms.

  1. What are always-online DRM, online passes, regional lockout, Tivoization, Information Rights Management and controlled digital lending? definition
  2. Which entry fits the specific form? action
Law Law.

Regulation.

Circumvention

Anti-circumvention law.

Circumvention

Circumvention.

  1. What do the DMCA, the EU directive and other laws say about circumvention and exemptions, at a general level? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

Consumer

Consumer rules.

Consumer

Consumer.

  1. What consumer protections apply to DRM, and what happens when services shut down? provenance
  2. Which sources are cited? provenance
Debate Debates.

Attribution.

Positions

Positions.

Positions

Positions.

  1. What do rights holders, consumer advocates, libraries and free software advocates argue about DRM, with positions attributed? provenance
  2. Is the presentation neutral? boundary

Lending

Controlled digital lending.

Lending

Lending.

  1. What is controlled digital lending, and how have courts ruled, with positions attributed? provenance
  2. Which entry fits controlled digital lending? action
Context Technology and history.

Context.

Technology

Technology.

Technology

Technology.

  1. How do encryption, licensing servers and hardware restrictions implement DRM, at a general level? provenance
  2. Which entry fits encryption? action

History

History.

History

History.

  1. How has DRM developed from early copy protection to streaming era licensing? provenance
  2. Which entry fits the history of copy protection? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should regional lockout, Tivoization and controlled digital lending be separate primary entries?
  • How should technology and legal sources be linked?
  • The registry entry has merged aliases naming distinct practices; should they be split off?