Introduction to Digital Rights Management
Frank Kamperman
Philips Research
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This presentation/paper will address Digital Rights Management (DRM). It starts explaining what DRM is and why it is used. It then will dive into some technical details by explaining the operation of DRM with its content containers, rights management languages, key management, and trust infrastructure. This will among others make clear that a DRM system in itself is in principle network technology independent. It furthermore will give attention to robustness and compliance rules, which play an important role in DRM systems.

With the basic knowledge in place some examples of system and business models deployed with DRM will be given and also some attention will be given to fingerprint and watermarking technologies that sometimes are used within DRM systems. The presentation/paper will end with some new trends in DRM like authorized domains, person based DRM, and walled gardens.

Frank Kamperman was born in Beuningen, The Netherlands, in 1968. He graduated in electrical engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology in 1991. He then started a two-year postgraduate course "Information and Communication Technique" at the same university and the received the MTD degree in 1993. In 1994, he joined Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven, where he currently is cluster leader of the Content Security cluster in the group Information & System Security. His current research interests are digital rights management and copy protection, authorized domains, and network security.


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