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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: May, Christopher, 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Chandos Pub., 2007.
Colección:Chandos information professional series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xv, 162 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-159) and index.
ISBN:1843341247
9781843341246
9781780631011
1780631014