Digital Rights Management - DRM

The development of the internet world brings new challenges in the field of copyright protection and privacy. Creators of content seek to secure legitimate revenues for their works by electronically specifying the scope of use that they want to permit when selling content via the internet. They manage the use of their copyrights digitally (Digital Rights Management - DRM). By contrast, their customers who obtain such content via internet services are concerned that the use of copyrighted content may be unduly restricted (“fair use”) and that their personal data may not be treated in accordance with privacy rules. While there is broad consensus that the success of DRM will largely depend on acceptance by consumers, structuring DRM solutions remains a complex business from an engineering perspective, an economic perspective and a legal perspective.

 

BENCZEK Rechtsanwalt brings to its clients a combined experience in the field of telecommunications law, and intellectual property matters as well as in e-commerce issues and in privacy laws to advise its corporate clients at all different levels of the value chain of DRM systems on the structuring of their services from a legal perspective.

 

This includes:

 

·         Advice on structuring DRM implemented on platforms accessible from both mobile and fixed access devices;

·         Advice on structuring DRM against the background of copyright laws and Information Society Laws;

·         Advice on structuring DRM against the background of Privacy and Data Protection Laws;

·         Advice on access to content proprietary DRM and competition law issues;

·         Against the background of all of the above, advice on structuring relevant services agreements between all parties involved in the DRM value chain, including but not limited to Trusted Third Parties (“TTP”) or Certification Authorities, Creators of Content, rightsholders and administrators, Media Distributors, internet access providers, IPR database providers, monitoring services providers etc.

·         Advice on structuring electronic payment & cash schemes relevant to mobile commerce transactions;   

·         Advice on the role of Collective Rights Management Societies in the advent of DRM and on dealings of authors and other rightsholders with Collective Rights Management Societies;

·         Enforcement of copyrights against illegitimate use of digitalized content.

 

 • Digital Rights Management  • DRM  • Information Society  • InfSo  • Directive  • e-commerce  • Copyright  • Fair Use  • privacy  • Personal Data  • Protection  • Access to Content  • Proprietary System  • Collective Rights Management  • Recommendation  • Competition Law