Digital Rights Management

A large amount of digital assets involving media such as text, audio, video etc. are being created everyday. Digital asset management involves creation, transfer, storage and consumption of these assets. It is mainly in the transfer function context that the digital rights management (DRM) becomes a major issue. The term DRM refers to a set of technologies and approaches that establish a trust relationship among the parties involved in a digital asset creation and transaction. Creators create a digital asset and owner owns the digital asset. The digital asset needs to be transferred from the owner to the consumers. For a scalable business model the transfer usually happens through a hierarchy of distributors. Therefore the parties involved in the digital asset creation and transaction are creators, owners, distributors and consumers. Each of these parties has their own rights namely, creators have creator rights, owners have owner rights, distributors have distributor rights and consumers have consumer rights. A true DRM system should be able to support all these rights.


Our Missions

With the emergence of digital rights concerns in booming digital media business, a multiparty multilevel DRM system involving owners, distributors, sub-distributors and consumers need to be developed. And the mission of this project is to build such a multiparty multilevel DRM system.