digital rights
RSS digital rightsIllegal downloaders crackdown: Digital Economy Bill to cut them off
News They must also hold a record of how many notifications a customer has received and give this data to rights holders. The rights holders, record companies for example, can then use this data to apply for... [23 Nov 2009]
Digital Rights Management - DRM: An Introduction to DRM
White Paper DRM offers industry information providers, which include the financial industries, analysts, consultants, programmers database owners and so on, as well as the record and film industries, with significant potential. [12 Nov 2009]
Rights Management: A History of Rights Management and DRM
White Paper Selecting a digital rights management system that is suitable for one means one need to look at how effectively they enforce the controls. Although it seems pretty obvious to some people that one should... [12 Nov 2009]
Enhancing Compliance With UK and EU Data Protection Laws When Collecting Employees E-Mail and Electronic Documents
White Paper Although these digital investigations are necessary to meet companies' legal obligations, they also must demonstrate respect for employees' privacy rights under EU directives and UK data protection laws,... [12 Nov 2009]
IPR and the Digital Revolution
White Paper Intellectual property law may establish the rights of authors and publishers, but it is not economically effective unless one is a substantial organization. Just as it has special regard to the rights of... [12 Nov 2009]
The Economics of Information Security: A Survey and Open Questions
White Paper The new field provides valuable insights not just into 'Security' topics such as privacy, bugs, spam, and phishing, but into more general areas such as system dependability (the design of peer-to-peer systems and the optimal balance of... [11 Nov 2009]
Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment Amazon discovered that a third-party publisher had added the novels to Amazon's library without having secured the necessary licensing rights to sell them. At this time it started to work with major university libraries... [27 Oct 2009]
Monitoring staff email and internet: The dos and don'ts
News Unlike workers in the US, employees in the UK do have an expectation of privacy in the workplace, and if you fail to follow best practice you could find your organisation on the wrong side of the law: under Article 8 of the Convention on... [22 Oct 2009]
BBC iPlayer gets ready to go Worldwide
News It could also carry non-BBC shows that BBC Worldwide already has rights to air on BBC America. It's inevitable that we, the digital media business, need to move to a mix of paid services," he said. BBC... [12 Oct 2009]
Mark Zuckerberg
AS Profile It was forced to back down from a policy where it held perpetual rights to content uploaded by users in February. The company has also attracted $200m of new investment from Digital Sky Technologies and... [08 Oct 2009]
CoSign Digital Signatures and HIPAA
White Paper It's designed to protect patient rights, and simplify the process of passing authorized information from one approved industry entity to another. This paper discusses the three main provisions of this Act and the role... [02 Oct 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The turntable spins on
Comment The music industry has wasted millions on intellectual property battles and digital rights management, and it looks as though the movie industry is intent on doing the same. Ten years ago a 19-year-old... [24 Sep 2009]
Beyond DRM: What Online Publishers Need to Know
White Paper This white paper examines some of the current approaches to Digital Rights Management (DRM) and the considerations for copyright holders striving to prevent the unauthorized duplication of their works. [12 Sep 2009]
Google Books hit with fresh wave of criticism from Microsoft, Open Book Alliance
News The proposed settlement goes well beyond the legitimate role of a copyright lawsuit -resolving claims for infringement - and imposes a slew of provisions that would restructure the rights and remedies of absent copyright... [09 Sep 2009]
Silverlight 4: Microsoft casts light on next version of Adobe Flash rival
News In particular, Microsoft said the next version of the Adobe Flash rival would support its PlayReady digital rights management technology for offline content. Ahead of a broadcasting conference that... [09 Sep 2009]
