A Proposal on Digital Rights Lifecycle Management

Abstract

Posed by the digital revolution, various issues concerning the handling of intellectual property rights originate in the differences between continuous (analog) and discrete (digital) content. These issues require research and development on systemic designs, technologies and services, and distribution models suitable for the digital age. Network distribution of digital content is referred to as digital commerce. Enlivening such markets requires the development of products, technologies and services, and systems that satisfy the need to distribute information. To this end, the Information and Society Research Division is engaged in research and development on Digital Rights Lifecycle Management (DRLM) systems that will provide incentives to publish information by automatically increasing ratings in the commercial domain of information evaluated highly in the public domain.