Protection mechanisms for electronic books
Ausderau, Patrick (2014)
Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu
2014
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201405127232
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201405127232
Tiivistelmä
The research for a new Digital Right Management (DRM) infrastructure for electronic books (e-book) is a task of the eReading project of the Next Media program. The goal of this thesis is to to propose a protection system that could help limiting copyright infringement while allowing fair use of e-books.
This thesis reviews the existing DRM system and other protection technologies such as watermarking and social DRM. It studies the upcoming Lightweight Content Protection standard (for EPUB). Apart from the technical aspect, the legal, educational and financial levers to reduce copyright infringement are studied. Web crawler and its implication into finding infringing material on the internet is also discussed in this study.
The main outputs of this thesis are a deliverable (number 1.3.1.4) for the Next Media program, presentations, seminars and conferences to the Finnish National Library, Next Media program, Finnish Book Publishers Association and Finnish author unions. Another output was the participation to the redaction of the DRM recommendations for the Finnish Book Publishers Association members.
This thesis recommends not to use DRM to protect e-books but to use either a lighter protection mechanism such as watermarking and social DRM combination or to be DRM-free. This proposal is enacted in the DRM recommendations and already followed by two major Finnish publishers and two vendors who abandon DRM for the lighter protection.
This thesis reviews the existing DRM system and other protection technologies such as watermarking and social DRM. It studies the upcoming Lightweight Content Protection standard (for EPUB). Apart from the technical aspect, the legal, educational and financial levers to reduce copyright infringement are studied. Web crawler and its implication into finding infringing material on the internet is also discussed in this study.
The main outputs of this thesis are a deliverable (number 1.3.1.4) for the Next Media program, presentations, seminars and conferences to the Finnish National Library, Next Media program, Finnish Book Publishers Association and Finnish author unions. Another output was the participation to the redaction of the DRM recommendations for the Finnish Book Publishers Association members.
This thesis recommends not to use DRM to protect e-books but to use either a lighter protection mechanism such as watermarking and social DRM combination or to be DRM-free. This proposal is enacted in the DRM recommendations and already followed by two major Finnish publishers and two vendors who abandon DRM for the lighter protection.