Digital rights management : the problem of expanding ownership rights /

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...

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Main Author:	May, Christopher, 1960-
Corporate Author:	ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Chandos Pub., 2007.
Series:	Chandos information professional series.
Subjects:	Copyright and electronic data processing. Piracy (Copyright) > Prevention. Intellectual property. Software protection. Sound recordings > Pirated editions > Prevention. Copyright > Electronic information resources. Intellectual Property Droit d'auteur > Sources d'information électroniques. Propriété intellectuelle. Droit d'auteur et informatique. Médias numériques > Sécurité > Mesures. Logiciels > Protection. intellectual property. Copyright > Electronic information resources Copyright and electronic data processing Intellectual property Software protection Electronic books.
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Summary:	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. Places DRM in its political contextSets out the social impact of a new and important technologyAccessible and clearly written for a non-technical audience.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xv, 162 pages)
Format:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-159) and index.
ISBN:	1843341247 9781843341246 9781780631011 1780631014