Model-oriented analysis of user – right holder relations and possible impacts of DRM¹

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Knopf, Dominik^{a; *} | Sorge, Christoph^b

Affiliations: [a] Institute for Information Law, University of Karlsruhe, Germany | [b] Institute for Program Structures and Data Organization, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Dominik Knopf, Bienwaldstraße 35, 76287 Rheinstetten, Germany. Tel.: +49 721 510294; E-mail: [email protected].

Note: [1] Paper presented at the EUSIDIC Spring Meeting 2003, which has been held in Karlsruhe (Germany), 16–18 March 2003.

Abstract: Digital Rights Management (DRM) is an approach to combine new business models with technical protection measures in order to increase revenues made with digital content. Most current approaches are not secure enough, too restrictive or even both. This article describes possible scenarios for the future of DRM using a simple model, the “tilting bottle model”. We come to the conclusion that the solution can only be found in a balanced DRM system considering the needs of both the customers and the right holders.

DOI: 10.3233/ISU-2003-23404

Journal: Information Services & Use, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 235-239, 2003