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Digital Rights Management : Strategies for Rich Media Content

Juniper Research Ltd. — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

DRM in the Public Sector

Butler Group — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

In the Public Sector the challenges and drivers in the deployment of DRM solutions are multiple: Targets for achievement of e-Government. Legislation requiring greater openness and transparency, such as that covering Data Protection and Freedom of Information. The increasing use of e-mail. New working relationships with the private sector.

The World Broadcast and Network Digital Video Recorder (DVR) Market

Frost & Sullivan — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

This Frost & Sullivan research provides an overview of the world broadcast and network DVR markets. The market has been segmented into digital media, digital streaming, digital encoding, digital asset management , digital rights management , and video servers. It also discusses the driving and restraining factors for revenue generation and gives recommendations on how to proceed in this market. The research enables companies to align their positioning strategies to benefit from the changing markets and obtain maximum return on investment.

Digital Rights Management : Selecting the Key Influencers of a Nascent Market

Datamonitor — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

With the growing penetration of wireless networks in consumer households, consumers are seeking to share their rich media content between their audio/visual devices (including PCs). This report analyzes the, nascent, market for digital rights management (DRM) technologies which will protect the rights and manage the distribution of such content.

Digital Rights Management: Content Providers Should Offer Broad Copying Parameters

Jupiter Research — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

Digital Rights Management (DRM) - DRM and virtual content distribution

IDATE — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

Digital Rights Management : Strategies for Rich Media Content

Juniper Research Ltd. — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

Digital Rights Management (DRM) - DRM and virtual content distribution

IDATE — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

Digital Rights Management : Selecting the Key Influencers of a Nascent Market

Datamonitor — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

Digital Rights Management: Selecting the key influencers of a nascent market

Datamonitor — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

With the growing penetration of wireless networks in households, consumers are seeking to share their rich media content between their audio/visual devices (including PCs). This report analyzes the nascent market for digital rights management (DRM) technologies which will protect the rights and manage the distribution of such content.

Today the market is focused on copy protection technologies for CDs, DVDs and online music e-tailers. But this is only a small subset of DRM. True DRM solutions will enable consumers to share their rich content between their audio/visual (including PC) devices, regardless of brand. More advanced versions of DRM will enable 'super-distribution', which will permit consumers to legally share content with their friends (the friend will be seamlessly billed if they agree to access the content) - thus the consumer also becomes a node of distribution.

"...The studio executives who once sat high up in their glass towers watching with mere fleeting interest as P2P networks ravaged the music industry have been shocked into action by the arrival of 1, 2, 3 or higher Mbps broadband pipes..."

Key report findings and highlights

- The growth of wireless home networks is encouraging consumers to seek to share their rich media content between devices. At present consumers are limited because there are not effective DRM solutions available. But if the content industry does not act soon consumers will seek potentially non-legal alternatives.
- The DRM market participants appear to have come to the same conclusion: the DRM market will be larger if they co-operate and develop interoperable systems, than if they seek to develop their own proprietary technology. This should be good news for consumers, content owners and consumer electronics (CE) manufacturers.

Reasons to purchase this report

1. Analyze the key influencers in the DRM market. It is crucial for content owners and CE manufacturers to pick the right partners
2 Examine how this market should develop information key to content owners/distributors, CE/PC vendors and DRM solution vendors
3. Assess the dramatic impact of DRM on consumer media consumption and how
it will alter the landscape for content owners/distributors and CE/PC
manufacturers

"...Back at the height of the dot.com boom, the leading DRM IP holders viewed the future of DRM as akin to a license to print money, the more conservative period of investment since 2000 has introduced an era of more realistic expectations..."

Digital Rights Management - conditions for success

IDATE — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

Protecting the rights to intellectual property and digital content, whether distributed via a physical (CD, DVD) or virtual medium (telecommunications and distribution networks) lies at the heart of a battle whose outcome will have implications for all players.

Digital distribution and protection against unauthorized copying

- Usages have moved into the digital era: copying, transferring, recording, handling, exchanging etc.
- Are digital breaches that enable unrestricted content handling being eradicated?
- Is digital rights management a condition for the equitable development of the virtual content distribution market?
- Technical protection measures versus the right to private copying, or how to protect rights holders and consumers?

DRM offerings

- DRM market confronted by very diverse players strategies.
- Will IT and consumer electronics players continue to pursue a strategy conflicting with rights holders interests?
- DRM interoperability, a difficult target to achieve for some, a reality for the world of mobile telecommunications

Virtual distribution: challenges and opportunities

- The music sector, peer-to-peers first victim, is now a pioneer in virtual content distribution.
- Ensuring effective content protection, a precondition to deploying virtual film distribution offerings.

Towards the co-existence of multiple models?

- The horizontal CD/DVD model combined with protection measures against copying.
- A vertical model related to pay television, video and music.
- The future of the MP3 model and of DIVX to some degree.
- Is a horizontal model linked to mobile telephony emerging?

Digital Rights Management - Arrival of Next-Generation Security Market

Research and Consultancy Outsourcing Services — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

The report "Digital Rights Management: Arrival of next Generation Security Market" delves into the matters of the rapid usage of Internet for digital production and redistribution processes. With more upcoming technologies, the digital technology services have increased, and so have the issues on copyrights.

This report scrutinizes the controversies that surround Digital Rights Management, or DRM amidst an increase in the illegal access and distribution of proprietary and copyrighted content. It focuses on the differences of opinion over copyrighted content between two industries: the content and media development industry, and the information technology industry.

The report also examines historical content management controversies and highlights some of the current proposed DRM architectures. It studies the application of digital rights management technology and its impact on the consumer and vendor applications. It then categorically analyzes the situational changes and developments in the field of online piracy market.

The report estimates that the market, with its incessant demand for the online protection rights, drives the worldwide demand for digital rights management softwares, which is anticipated to reach US$3.6billion by 2005 with a robust 106.1% growth rate compared to its market valuation as in 2000. However, as DRM technologies evolve and develop, so does end users' concern about restrictions to their access to, and use of information. Thus, one of the primal objectives of DRM industry leaders is to create a balance between fair compensation for the creators of digital content and the rights of end-users to access and use the information they need.

REPORT HIGHLIGHTS:

- Importance of Internet and digital production
- Copyrights protection and digital rights management.
- Solutions to DRM challenges.
- New laws and regulations.
- Traditional and new copyright protection approaches.
- Discussions of different statutes.
- Market reviews.

REPORT FEATURES:

The report on Digital Rights Management discusses its emergence as an important tool in curbing the copyrights violations. Chapter 1 and 2 discuss the copyrights protection and digital management, the different technologies and methods of application. Chapter 3 discusses the architecture of DRM application and Information Technology. The copyright regulations and policy structures are discussed in detail in chapter 4. Content security and management are discussed with an emphasis on the newer case studies and developments.

Digital Rights Management: Strategies for Rich Media Content

Juniper Research — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

Digital content delivery, content protection, intellectual property rights and distribution management, and a secure, attractive transaction mechanism are the main challenges in today's digital market.

The music industry has been the highest-profile talking point of the digital debate, partly because the visible parts of the business model select, pay for, and download three or four-minute pop songs appear to be so simple. Along with SMS (Short Message Service) , MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) and email, it is the proverbial killer application, but it is one that has shaken an industry to its core. Not only do the Internet and other interconnected information networks provide unprecedented means to access and share content beyond geographical boundaries and time constraints, they also provide an unprecedented means to discuss it and to share information about what is going on.

This briefing document brings together the essential elements of the digital rights debate providing a balanced review and analysis for players operating in the sector.

About the Author
Chris Middleton is a widely respected journalist, author, and editor specializing in digital media, intellectual property, and technology. Formerly the editor of the UK's most successful business-to-business technology monthly, Computer Business Review, and formerly deputy editor of the UK's Computing newspaper, Chris has written for a number of national and international publications, including The Guardian newspaper, and the BBC's Tomorrow's World, together with dozens of business magazines. He is the author of the illustrated book The Complete Guide to Digital Audio (A Comprehensive Introduction to Digital Music-Making and Sound), published worldwide in 2004 to extremely positive reviews, and has edited, co-written, or contributed to over 20 books on the digital arts, published by companies such as Dorling Kindersley, Mitchell Beazley, Cassell Illustrated, Watson Guptill, and Amphoto Books. He lives and works in Brighton, UK, where he also writes and produces music for films and videos.

Failure of the FBI Case Management System Highlights a Larger IT Project Management Issue ...

IDC — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

This IDC Insight looks the failure of the FBI's Virtual Case File system as an example of how changes can sometimes greatly complicate an IT development project. It also looks at change management as an important but often overlooked part of the project management process.

To spur cost savings and simplify licensing structures, federal agencies are under considerable pressure to consolidate existing applications into multiagency solutions. At the same time, homeland security concerns have stimulated a need for cross-agency data sharing and standardized data tagging. Both of these efforts have prompted change requests within existing government IT development projects.

Digital Rights Management - The Next Battle Area for ECM

Butler Group — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

Digital Rights Management is set to become the next area of functionality to be added to Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solutions, following in the steps of Records Management and e-mail management functionality. Although ECM vendors have been talking about DRM for some time, few currently have this functionality in their products, instead having to rely on integration with Digital Rights applications from specialist niche players.

Avoco Secure is a start-up that has a DRM solution, secure2trust, which is a document content security product. It has been designed to enable an organisation to collaborate in an environment where the secure control of content is managed through access and digital rights. A differentiator for Avoco Secure is that secure2trust uses a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) model rather than a client/server one. This, the company believes, provides both transparency and flexibility to document security. The major advantage of this approach is that a server is not required for access to a protected document. This means that documents can be shared with external companies while at the same time retaining control over access to, and use of, the document.

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An Open and Shut Case: The Future of Digital Rights Management

ABI Research — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

When the US Congressional Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual property invited testimony from four industry experts, they were considering nothing less than the future of digital rights management in the United States.

At issue are proprietary versus "open" digital rights management (DRM) technologies, and whether governments should get involved. Congress and industry leaders are having a healthy debate about the future course of action.

Identity Management Suites Gain Market Traction Thanks to More Stringent Corporate Compliance ...

The Radicati Group — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

Identity Management solutions have moved from the category of novelty to established and widely deployed corporate products. Combining directory services, provisioning, secure access/authentication and federation elements, Identity Management suites enable the secure and automatic management of user roles and identities across corporate resources.

Companies deploying Identity Management solutions are increasingly motivated by regulatory compliance reasons, requiring them to provide audit trails of all user actions to government auditors. Such regulations as HIPAA require that confidential patient data can't be accessed by unauthorized users. Other regulations, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, require top executives to be certain that no users inside their company have violated their access rights or used digital resources they had access to inappropriately. Identity Management solutions can help companies do both--recreate past events to prove there were no violations, as well as prevent such violations from happening in the first place.

Digital Identity Management

Ashgate Publishing — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

For organizations in the future, both public and private sector, identity management is both a huge opportunity and a huge risk. Successfully managed, it will allow everyone to access products and services that are tailored to their needs and their behaviours. But successful management implies that organizations will have overcome the significant obstacles of security, individual human rights and social concern that could bring the whole model crashing down. Digital Identity Management, based on the work of the Annual Digital Forum in London, provides a cutting edge view of the subject and explores the current technology available for identity management, its applications within business and its significance in wider debates about identity, society and the law. This is a must-have reference for commercial organizations, seeking to use identity to get closer to customers; and for those in the government and society wrestling with online delivery of targeted services and with the wider issue of identity, rights, risks and opportunities.

* This product is pre-publication and is due to be released in Dec 2005. Order now at this special pre-publication price.

Digital Rights: Content Ownership & Distribution

Parks Associates — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

DRM-related technologies have been a controversial issue. How will technology developers balance the interests between consumers and copyrights owners? This report analyzes each stakeholder's interest in designing or promoting DRM-related technologies for consumers' multimedia needs at home, and how DRM can be integrated into business strategy to generate new revenue opportunities. It offers fresh perspectives on DRM standards and interoperability, profiles key players, and predicts the trend in DRM adoption.

Consumers traditionally tend to think of DRM as usage restrictions, not rights, and therefore shun products or services with DRM," said Harry Wang, a research analyst. "But that may change, as DRM developers strive to provide experience-transparent solutions to consumers and effectively protect rights owners' interest at the same time. The long-term success of DRM relies on such a balance to change consumers' consumption patterns."

Document And Records Management

Datamonitor — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

Organisations in general have a clear understanding of their obligations, under current and pending regulations, to keep electronic copies of information, such as e-mails, as well as hard copy, such as letters and faxes. This is leading to confusion as to whether information should be kept at all, and if so for how long it needs to be retained.

In our opinion, the only effective way to safely retain information, in a format where it cannot be altered, is to implement a Document and Records Management (DRM) solution. Unfortunately few organisations outside of the public sector have even a basic understanding of Records Management (RM), and how this differs from Document Management (DM) - the Report explains the important differences between these apparently similar disciplines.

It is our view that the general ignorance surrounding DRM will cost organisations dearly as regulators get tougher on companies that fail to discover and retrieve information within the demanded timeframe.

This Report will be of interest to IT Directors and CIOs, who will be likely candidates to hold the responsibility for managing DRM strategy in an organisation.

Digital Rights Management - Arrival of Next-Generation Security Market

Research and Consultancy Outsourcing Services — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

The Second Edition of the Business of Digital Copyright

Digital Tech Consulting — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

As the anticipated sequel to the ground-breaking first edition, this report, updated with 2004-2008 forecasts, is an essential guide to navigating the digital copyright landscape! It offers a comprehensive analysis, which includes detailed global forecasts of products and services using copy protection and DRM technologies, technical primers for a range of digital content protection technologies, company profiles of the major players, and legal and policy analysis that sheds light on digital content and management on a global scale.

Digital Rights: Content Ownership & Distribution

Parks Associates — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

Digital Rights: Content Ownership & Distribution

Parks Associates — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

Digital Rights Management: Strategies for Rich Media Content

Juniper Research — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

Digital Rights Management - conditions for success

IDATE — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

Digital Rights Management: Selecting the key influencers of a nascent market

Datamonitor — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

European Digital Rights Management Systems Market - The Need for Interoperability

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

This Frost & Sullivan research service titled "European Digital Rights Management Systems Market - The Need for Interoperability" provides an insight into the evolution of DRM as well as the current DRM market and its impact on content delivery. It provides a description of key drivers, challenges and restraints related to wireless DRM. The study also identifies trends by application as well as provides a description of the components and requirements of an effective DRM system.

Music DRM The State of the Art and Beyond

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

Drawing upon in-depth discussions with senior-level representatives at InterTrust, Microsoft and ContentGuard, this report explains the history of DRM standardisation efforts, summarises the current status of the relevant DRMs, both fixed and mobile and then provides a detailed description of the most interesting initiative in the market today: the DRM interoperability framework being developed by the Coral Consortium.

Market Focus: Digital Rights Management in the Media Sector

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

Media companies need to retain greater control over the content they provide the lessons learnt from the illegal P2P music sites are still fresh in the minds of media executives, who are understandably keen to restrict such practices going forwards. DRM technologies offer the potential to protect content rights, while providing consumers with flexible usage of the content that they buy.

Digital Music Retail Platforms: Case Study A Profile of Europe's Leading Platform: SDC/DWS

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

Setting up a music retail presence used to be a fairly straightforward affair. Having acquired a suitable retail location, the main tasks were the shop refit, hiring staff and stocking the store with CDs. Although essential, the role of IT was minor, involving little more than setting up a stock control and ordering system and establishing a connection to a card payment service provider. How things have changed! Today, launching a digital music store is a highly complex project that requires deep IT and internetworking expertise, a task that is complicated further if the retailer wants to sell across multiple channels such as online, mobile and TV.

Music DRM The State of the Art and Beyond

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

CDN Market Dynamics, Analysis and Streaming Share: 2005 - 2006

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

This report provides a detailed data and audience analysis of Content Delivery Network services segment (CDN), with detailed analysis of pricing (streaming audio, video, download and advertising), streaming infrastructure, R&D initiatives, market share by CDN, revenue, MRR (monthly recurring revenue), an analysis of Flash pricing and server deployment and streaming media format share. Combined commercial market value (backhaul provisioning, retail contracts) for streaming audio, video, streaming audio and video advertising, download media and entertainment is estimated at between $385 million to $452 million in 2005.

World Digital Rights Management Markets

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

This Frost & Sullivan research service, titled World Digital Rights Management Market, provides an overview of the Enterprise and Entertainment Digital Rights Management market and the factors that will affect its growth in future. Evaluation of the market includes forecasting for revenues and demand for DRM solutions in the coming years. Also, factors driving and restraining the growth of the market along with key challenges being faced by the industry are identified. In this research, Frost & Sullivan's expert analysts thoroughly examine the following markets: enterprise DRM and entertainment DRM.

The Role of DRM in the Broadcast Sector (Strategy Focus)

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

Provides an overview of the ways in which DRM can help pay-TV operators to extend the scope of their offerings. Examines changing competitive dynamics across the pay-TV sector, where conditional access vendors are coming up against new DRM-centric providers.

Marlin: A New DRM A Real Alternative to Windows Media?

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

Led primarily by InterTrust, a company jointly owned by Sony and Philips, Marlin is an open DRM aimed primarily at the consumer electronics market. This report has been prepared to provide digital media professionals with a clear understanding of the essence of Marlin and a solid appreciation of the issues involved in turning what is currently little more that a comprehensive set of specifications into a major commercial success.

Digital Rights Management: Opportunities (2006)

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

RNCOS' "Digital Rights Management: Opportunities (2006)" report provides extensive research and objective analysis on global Digital Rights Management market. This report helps clients to analyze the opportunities and factors critical to the future success of DRM technology. Detailed statistics and analysis helps potential investors to navigate through the evolving market opportunities in the potential areas of application of DRM technology at the global level.

World Digital Rights Management Markets

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

This Frost & Sullivan research service, titled World Digital Rights Management Market, provides an overview of the Enterprise and Entertainment Digital Rights Management market and the factors that will affect its growth in future. Evaluation of the market includes forecasting for revenues and demand for DRM solutions in the coming years. Also, factors driving and restraining the growth of the market along with key challenges being faced by the industry are identified. In this research, Frost & Sullivans expert analysts thoroughly examine the following markets: enterprise DRM and entertainment DRM.

Apple iPod - A Model Internet Citizen or a Catalyst for Piracy?

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

This Frost & Sullivan research service, entitled Apple iPod - a model Internet Citizen or a Catalyst for Piracy?, provides qualitative and quantitative analyses illustrating the ways storage is used with mobile devices. In this research, Frost & Sullivans expert analysts thoroughly examine digital rights management in mobile devices.

Digital Music Distribution - Time for a New Approach

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

The music industry is at a strategic crossroads and desperately needs a long-term solution to the problem of digital distribution. It is becoming increasingly clear that the industry's current implementation of DRM is causing at least as many problems as it solves while the alternative approach of supplying raw, unprotected MP3s, could severely damage the industry's commercial potential in the long term. This report proposes a radically different approach which is based on harnessing the desire that ordinary users have to copy and share music in an unpredictable way on a mass scale.

2007 Technology - Internet - Volume 1 - Infrastructure

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

This report is a technical introduction, for people without an engineering background, to the Internet's infrastructure and to its major protocols and applications. We begin with an overview of the Internet's future, including two challenges to its continuing stability - the crisis in routing and addressing and the proliferation of 'botnets': criminally controlled networks of hundreds of thousands of home and office computers which are used for spam, fraud and denial of service attacks.