Digital rights management


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Practice notes

Digital rights management


Published by a ÑÇÖÞÉ«ÇéÍø TMT expert

Practice notes
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This Practice Note explains the legal and practical issues relevant to Digital rights management and discusses the extent to which technical devices and other protection measures can be used by rights owners to safeguard and manage their Digital content. It also summarises the range of offences that may apply where technical protection devices or related measures are circumvented or management rights information is misused.

What is digital rights management?

Digital rights management (DRM) refers to the technical Controls used by Copyright owners of digital content to identify, track and protect their content.

DRM is used to prevent unauthorised copying, such as through encryption, so that only authorised programs and authorised users can access a particular digital file. DRM is also used to identify digital content and manage its delivery to end users, eg by monitoring the number of times a work has been accessed for the purpose of calculating the relevant royalty payable or to support business models such as online music subscription services. For example, the video streaming service Netflix monitors the number of devices on which one account is

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Digital rights management (DRM) refers to the technical controls used by copyright owners of digital content to identify, track and protect their content.

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