What are DRMs and when can they be used?
Digital Rights Management Systems – DRMs – are a term commonly used to describe a wide range of technical measures that are licensed for controlling, measuring and enabling use of copyright protected digital content. Such systems cover a range of technologies with different purposes such as: • systems to identify owners rights and give information on licensing , e.g. to enable collecting societies to accurately pay royalties – Rights management Information (RMI) • copy protection systems to prevent unauthorised coping, e.g.
