Resources from the Digital Right Management conference at Berkeley. This page contains a wealth of general DRM background, news, opinion, and the like, as well as more specific resources on the impact of DRMs on innovation, competition, and security.

The centerpiece of the page is a paper by Lionel S. Sobel on "DRM as an Enabler of Business Models: ISPs as Digital Retailers":

I. The quest for better business models

II. DRM-based business models

A. Anti-copyright model

B. Beyond copyright models

C. Copyright based models

1. Statutory license models

2. Models giving copyright owners discretion and control

III. ISPs as Digital Retailers Model

A. The role of control

B. How the Digital Retailer Model would work

1. Enabling DRM technologies

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