User-attributed rights in DRM

  • Authors:
  • Milan Petković;R. Paul Koster

  • Affiliations:
  • Philips Research, Information & System Security, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;Philips Research, Information & System Security, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • DRMTICS'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on Digital Rights Management: technologies, Issues, Challenges and Systems
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Current Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems lack a functionality that allows a user to have more control over his content licenses to preserve his privacy or otherwise protect his interests. This paper presents an approach to increasing user's control of domain-based protected content without sacrificing content owner's control. The proposed method is based on a specific form of a delegation license and an activation mechanism. The paper also discusses a practical realization of the proposed concept as well as its cryptographic enforcement, architectural aspects and system complexity. The effectiveness and simplicity of the approach are illustrated by a practical realization of several motivating examples.