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'''Digital Rights Management (DRM)''' refers to the laws and technologies which provide intellectual property owners control over the distribution and use of their digital property by defining consumers' rights in its usage<ref name=Bates>Bates, BJ. (2008) 'Commentary: Value and Digital Rights Management-A Social Economics Approach', Journal of Media Economics, 21:1, 53-77</ref>.
'''Digital Rights Management (DRM)''' refers to the laws and technologies which provide intellectual property owners control over the distribution and use of their digital property by defining consumers' rights in its usage<ref name=Bates>Bates, BJ. (2008) 'Commentary: Value and Digital Rights Management-A Social Economics Approach', Journal of Media Economics, 21:1, 53-77</ref>. Enforcing DRM is critical to many of the commercial use of many subjects in [[Convergence of communications]].





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Digital Rights Management (DRM) refers to the laws and technologies which provide intellectual property owners control over the distribution and use of their digital property by defining consumers' rights in its usage[1]. Enforcing DRM is critical to many of the commercial use of many subjects in Convergence of communications.


Copyrights and The Digital Milennium Copyright Act

DRM Approaches

Technology

Compact Discs (CDs)

Digital Versatile Discs (DVDs)

References

  1. Bates, BJ. (2008) 'Commentary: Value and Digital Rights Management-A Social Economics Approach', Journal of Media Economics, 21:1, 53-77