Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on About Digital Rights Management. Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
Essay / Research Paper Abstract
This 3 page paper discusses digital rights management: what it is and how it works. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Page Count:
3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: KV32_HVabtdrm.rtf
Buy This Term Paper »
Unformatted sample text from the term paper:
idea of protecting intellectual property is not new. Authors have been protecting their work with copyrights for years. But now, with material that was once restricted to the page being
available electronically, new concerns have arisen. What can be protected and how? The fact is, a person who purchases a CD, DVD, videotape or other similar product does not
actually own the content; rather, they are leasing it from the copyright holder (Lewis, 2008). It comes down to the fact that artists are entitled to compensation for the use
of the material they created: Every time someone reads a book, plays a song, watches TV or enjoys a concert, the copyright holder is paid a fee (Lewis, 2008). This
seemed to be straightforward enough until computers came into the picture. With the advent of wide-spread computer use, copyright holders suddenly realized they would not be able to control their
own property (Lewis, 2008). Because it was possible to use the media literally all over the world, there was no way the copyright holder "could find out where a creation
was being used so that they could be paid" (Lewis, 2008). Computer software is now so sophisticated that its possible for someone to download a property and make a copy
of it that is so good its impossible to tell it from the original; they could then sell the copy to someone else, bypassing the original creator entirely (Lewis, 2008).
This includes music as well as visual media. In order to prevent the theft of their work, copyright owners have hired programmers to "devise ... ways to manage the way
that their property is processed by digital devices. These methods of control are called digital rights management, or DRM" (Lewis, 2008). DRM is designed to prevent users from "accessing, copying,
...