PAPER ID:IJIM/V.I(XI)/11-17/2

AUTHOR: Mani Bhusan Roy

TITLE : COPYRIGHT PROTECTION OF SCHOLARLY CONTENT IN THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT: POSSIBLE TECHNOLOGICAL MEASURES

ABSTRACT: The spreading of internet and web technologies changed the way of information communication and the mode of information access. Digital content is still valuable and it should be protected. The protection of copyright or intellectual right of digital content is concerned to be one of the big problems of the digital environment. The content providers are investing to new ways of making profits and offering new services concerning digital products. Thus, how to enforce property rights after digital content has been released to authorized users is a crucial and challenging issue. Digital copyright protecting/Digital right management systems have been proposed to address this issue by enforcing the rights access policies in a trusted computing environment. However, DRM systems can only be useful if the computing environment can be protected and compliant to the common rights policy throughout the lifecycle of digital objects. This paper presents a technical overview of the capabilities and characteristics of technologies proposed for use as a means of providing copyright protection for digital Scholarly content.

KEYWORDS: Content Protection, Digital Rights Management, digital signature, digital watermarking, Encryption.

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