March 25, 2009 Jean-Henry Morin University of Geneva – CUI Dept. of Information Systems Switzerland [email protected]http://jean- henry.com / Panel on The Future of Panel on The Future of DRM DRM Webcast & Transcript available here : http:// www.ftc.gov/bcp/workshops/drm /
Panel on the Future of DRM at the FTC Town Hall meeting. University of Washington School of Law, Technology Law and Public Policy Clinic, March 25, 2009.Full webcast and transcript available at : http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/workshops/drm/
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1. March 25, 2009 Jean-Henry Morin University of Geneva CUI
Dept. of Information Systems Switzerland [email_address]
http://jean- henry.com /Panel on The Future of DRM Webcast &
Transcript available here : http:// www.ftc.gov/bcp/workshops/drm
/
2. How did we get here a dystopian society ? Digital Rights
ManagementMarch 25, 2009 http:// www.flickr.com/search/?q =DRM 3.
Where did we go wrong?
Where didUser Experiencego ?
Where didSuperdistributiongo ?
Where are the newinnovative Business Models , theReal-time
Marketers , etc. ?
Did DRMcurbthose that it meant ?
Wasnt DRM supposed to be anenabler?
Digital Rights ManagementMarch 25, 2009 4. The Future of DRM
Assuming :
DRM is likely to stay and be needed (managed content)
Absolute security is neither achievable nor desirable
Given the rightUser ExperienceandBusiness Modelsmost users
would smoothly comply
Most users arent criminals
We need to take a step back to :
Critically re-think DRM altogether
Reconsider the debate outside theeither/orextremes of total vs.
no security
Re-design DRM from group up
Digital Rights ManagementMarch 25, 2009 5. Rethinking &
Redesigning DRM (I)
Central role of theUserandUser Experience
Reinstate Users in their roles & rights
Presumption of innocence & the burden of proof
A Fundamental guiding principle to re-think & re-design DRM
: Feltens Copyright Balance principle (Felten, 2005)
Since lawful use, including fair use, of copyrighted works is
in the public interest, a user wishing to makelawful useof
copyrighted materialshould not be preventedfrom doing so by any DRM
system.
Claim:
Put the trust back into the hands of the users
Digital Rights ManagementMarch 25, 2009 6. Rethinking &
Redesigning DRM (II)
Exception Management in DRM, mixing water with fire ?
Reverse the distrust assumption
Allow Users to makeException Claimsand be granted Short Lived
Licenses
Credentialbased,revocable in case of abuse detection /
monitoring
Acknowledging the need forManaged Content
Digital Rights ManagementMarch 25, 2009 7. Conclusion
Can DRM go green before we all go dark ?
Moving forward :
Critically re-think DRM
Creatively re-design DRM
Involve equally all stakeholders
Find new innovative Business Models
Limit law to a justifiable level
Remember technology is just the means
Digital Rights ManagementMarch 25, 2009 8. References
Thank you for your attention
http://jean- henry.com /
J.-H. Morin, Rethinking DRM Using Exception Management ,
chapter III inHandbook of Research on Secure Multimedia
Distribution , S. Lian and Y. Zhang (Eds), Information Science
Reference (ISR), ISBN: 978-1-60566-262-6, IGI Global, March
2009.
J.-H. Morin, Exception Based Enterprise Rights Management :
Towards a Paradigm Shift in Information Security and Policy
Management ,International Journal On Advances in Systems and
Measurements , issn 1942-261x, vol. 1, no. 1, 2008, pp. 40-49.