ABSTRACT
Copyright law is based on the idea that an author’s work, in any form, is the result of his own labour, skills, and efforts, and that it is produced for the author’s benefit. Because copyright law is a negative right that can be used for good, the goal is to stop others from using a copyrighted work without permission. Contrarily, freedom of information, or the unrestricted flow of information online, is the philosophy behind the internet. DRM-also known as “restrictive measures”-gives copyright holders a new tool for online content distribution, protection, and payment. Because there was no legal protection for the same, the person committing copyright infringement continued to infringe on the online content, and it was believed that it was incompetent to protect the content online and could be circumvented by any ordinary skilled person with ordinary computer skill, it was initially not the primary choice of the content producers. With the development of new DRM technologies, content owners began to use DRM to protect their online digital content, but there was still no legal safeguard against DRM circumvention. Then the creators and the substance holders began requesting lawful cure against evasion of DRM.
KEY WORDS: Digital Rights Management, WIPO, Rights Management Information, The Millennium Digital Copyright Act, Anti-piracy.
INTRODUCTION
The administration of digital rights in the context of copyright law in the digital sphere is known as digital rights management, or DRM.DRM includes the three in conjunction, fundamental elements: digital, rights, and management. It encompasses a range of technological protection measures (TPM) employed by the owners of the rights to safeguard their licensed digital content from being utilized in ways that could undermine its commercial value. DRM serves as a means to secure and govern copyright works in the digital domain. It can be can be characterized as a
collection of interconnected technologies utilised to establish secure channels for distributing digital content, as well as mechanisms that impose specific conditions on the usage and sharing of digital products[1]. These protective measures include encryption, monitoring mechanisms, license management functionality, and technological safeguards. DRM may also encompass techniques such as copy control, digital watermarking, fingerprinting, piracy tracking, authentication architectures, integrity verification, access control, resistance to tampering, key management and revocation, and risk management. DRM involves the management and enforcement of usage rules, including copyright regulations, for digital content, and can optionally encompass accounting aspects. Digital Rights Management (DRM) refers to the technologies that support the legal distribution of digital content while safeguarding intellectual property rights. Instead of determining whether or not content should be shared, DRM technology offers tools to control access to digital media. Ultimately, DRM frameworks provide a set of instruments for protecting digital media, but their existence does not imply that all digital media should be protected.[2]
[1]Davina M. DesRoches, “Rights or Restrictions? An Examination of Several key Issues and Debates Surrounding the Use and Potential Legislative Protection DRM Systems”, Available at:http://carl abrc.ca/uploads/pdfs/copyright/drm.pdf (accessed on 5 may 2023).
[2] Wenjun Zeng Heather yuching- Yung Lin, Multimedia Security technologies for Digital Rights Management, Digital Rights Management Systems, Marina Bosi pg. 23