What Every Citizen Should Know About DRM a.k.a. Digital Rights Management
What Every Citizen Should Know About DRM is a primer on digital rights management (DRM) technologies and their relationship with copyright law. This report was written by Mike Godwin, Senior Technology Counsel at Public Knowledge
I. A Brief Introduction To DRM and its Relationship to Copyright Law
What is "DRM," and How Did It Get Here?
Most broadly, DRM (an acronym for "digital rights management") is a collective name for technologies that prevent you from using a copyrighted digital work beyond the degree to which the copyright owner wishes to allow you to use it.
At first glance, the increasing use of DRM by movie companies, by consumer- electronics makers, and by computer makers may not bother you very much. You may look over the increasing use of DRM and ask yourself why you should care. After all, isn
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