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Identifier

000358464

Title

A digital rights management system based on semantic rules

Alternative Title

Ένα σύστημα διαχείρισης ψηφιακών δικαιωμάτων βασισμένο σε σημασιολογικές κανόνες

Author

Λιναρδάκης, Γεώργιος Δ

Thesis advisor

Πλεξουδάκης, Δημήτριος

Abstract

Digitization together with the exponential growth of the web have led to a world where digital music, images, video, books, and games can be distributed instantly across the internet to end-users. However, this fact has at the same time led to increased concern about the protection of the rights of owners of the content that is distributed in electric form. The main use that comes up is that without protection of digital rights, digital content an be easily and uncontrollably copied, modified and distributed by a large number of end-users which do not have the essential rights to do such actions. Our essential proposal to resolve this issue is a system that prevents unauthorized access to digital content and manages content usage rights. Our contribution is the designing and development of a digital rights management system that based on some specified semantic rules and provides a persistent content protection against umauthorized access to the digital content, limiting access to only those with the proper authorization. Mpreover our system is capable to manage content usage rights in such a way where no one other than the copyright owner of the content can perform an action (e.g. copy, distribute) to this content without the owner's authorization. However, certain end-user actions (use for education, private copy) may, in circmustances specified in the current legislation, can be done without the authorization of the copyright owner (Copyright Exceptions).

Language

English

Subject

Digital Rights Management (DRM)

Digital content

O νόμος περί πνευματικής ιδιοκτησίας

Semantic rules

Διαχείρηση ψηφιακής πνευματικής ιδιοκτησίας

Σημασιολογικοί κανόνες

Ψηφιακό περιεχόμενο

Issue date

2010-07-16