DRM Reviewed

Alapan Arnab and Andrew CM Hutchison presented a paper titled “Digital Rights Management - An Overview of current challenges and solutions”
in Gallagher Estate, Midrand, South Africa (15 July 2004). They both come from the University of Cape Town’s Department of Science (http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000139/01/arnab_hutchison_issa2004.pdf).
The paper gives a broad overview and looks at the strengths and weaknesses of DRM, examine legalities for parties concern, discuss the DRM structure and its characteristics whether they satisfy legal requirements. Lastly, it reviewed three DRM systems and whether they meet desired DRM requirements.
The Australian Government has written a Guide to DRM that has been developed to assist creators, producers and traders with the management of their content in the digital environment (The Guide was written for the Commonwealth Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (DCITA) http://www.dcita.gov.au/drm/).
The UK Web Design Company (http://www.theukwebdesigncompany.com/articles/digital-rights-management.php)says that in order to come up a solution regarding DRM, a balance between consumers and copyright owners and intellectual property creators on the other in the end.

Links:
Electronic Frontier Foundation: Defending Freedom in the Digital World - "http://www.eff.org/IP/DRM/Electronic Privacy Information Center: DRM & Privacy - http://www.epic.org/privacy/drm/default.htmlDigital rights management - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_managementDigital Rights Management - http://www.theukwebdesigncompany.com/articles/digital-rights-management.php