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INTRODUCTION DEFINITIONS APPLICATIONS CONCLUSION
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Digital Rights Management (DRM)
andSoftware Products
Olivier Sacroug
European Patent AttorneyKatzarov SA
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• Software piracy worldwide
– Increased with the Internet– Difficult to trace (no need of a physical
support to transfer a software product)
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• A functional definition of DRM:– The identification and description of
intellectual property, rights pertaining to works and to parties involved in their creation or administration (digital rights management);
– The (technical) enforcement of usage restriction (digital management of rights).
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• Requirements– Identification (unique identifier of the work)– Clear description (Metadata)– Usage rules
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• Right management vs. Content management– Content management: includes creating,
manipulating, fixing, storing, transferring, performing, rendering and disposing of the content.
– Rights management: all activity conducted in relation to the rights governing the content management activity.
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• DRM tools– Identify the work, the right holder– Describe the content– Allow use according to the rules
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• Examples– Encryption – Persistent association (watermarks, digital
signature)– Metadata– Payment technologies
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• Examples (Software)– Game consoles (Nintendo, Sony Playstation,
…)– Microsoft software (Genuine certificate
verification)– Trial use of a software for a limited period of
time– Online registration to activate the software
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• Forbidden by the law:– Act of circumvention– Tools for circumvention
of Access Control and Copyright Control TMs
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• Issues:– Low level of standardisation– Often no management of exceptions to the
author’s rights (copies for private use, cryptographic research, reverse engineering, etc.)
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• Conclusion– DRM solutions are more and more used for
software products– No standard solutions yet, resulting in poor or
no interoperability
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Questions?
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Olivier Sacroug
Katzarov SAEuropean Patent & Trademark Attorneys
Geneva and Basel
[email protected]: +41 22 342 66 30Fax: +41 22 342 66 15
www.katzarov.com
Thank You!