Digital Rights Management

What is it about?

Demystifies digital rights management and places it into the context of a model--the agent, the resource and the rights, Helps the reader understand the context of digital rights management, to enable better decisions about what to safeguard from open use and why, as well as how to deal with publishers applying digital rights management to resources

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Why is it important?

This book is based on a model and principles that enable librarians, and those in other fields, to understand the critical context behind rights management, to enable good decisions about resources and people engaged in the digital scholarly landscape. Most of the technology is still in place, but the book goes beyond technology to the principles and practices behind technology in the digital space.