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A Digital Rights Management System for Educational Content Distribution

A Digital Rights Management System for Educational Content Distribution

Tom S. Chan
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781605661186|ISBN10: 160566118X|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616926236|EISBN13: 9781605661193
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-118-6.ch009
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Chan, Tom S. "A Digital Rights Management System for Educational Content Distribution." Digital Rights Management for E-Commerce Systems, edited by Lambros Drossos, et al., IGI Global, 2009, pp. 196-213. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-118-6.ch009

APA

Chan, T. S. (2009). A Digital Rights Management System for Educational Content Distribution. In L. Drossos, D. Tsolis, S. Sioutas, & T. Papatheodorou (Eds.), Digital Rights Management for E-Commerce Systems (pp. 196-213). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-118-6.ch009

Chicago

Chan, Tom S. "A Digital Rights Management System for Educational Content Distribution." In Digital Rights Management for E-Commerce Systems, edited by Lambros Drossos, et al., 196-213. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-118-6.ch009

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Abstract

While delivering content via the Internet can be efficient and economical, content owners risk losing control of their intellectual property. Any business that wishes to control access to, and use of its intellectual property, is a potential user of Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies. Traditional DRM has a passive one-way downstream consumption of content from producer to consumer focus primarily concerns digital rights enforcement. This model does not translate well to the education environment where openness, informal decision making, sharing of ideas, and decentralization are valued. Collaboration and multiple authorships are common in the educational environment, as is the repurposing and modification of digital content used for teaching and learning. A DRM system for educational content distribution must be substantially more sophisticated and flexible than what is available right now to gain support in the educational community.

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