Digital Rights Management (DRM) promises novel business models for the distribution of and access to all kinds of digital content - from music and movies to text and software - while ensuring that the interests of rights holders are protected. Over the last years, DRM systems have been introduced globally – and increasingly, DRM systems play a vital role in the mobile sector.

Based on three DRM conferences in Berlin that brought together high-profile specialists in this area - scientists, lawyers, academics, and business practitioners - this leading DRM book presents a broad, well-balanced, and objective approach that covers the entire digital rights management spectrum. Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the field, the book is structured using three different perspectives that cover the technical, legal, and business issues.

This 800-page, monograph-like anthology is the first consolidated book on this young topic. It is written by about 50 authors from businesses such as Baker & McKenzie, Bertelsmann, Boston Consulting Group, CoreMedia, Ericsson, Fujitsu-Siemens, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Nokia and Rightscom, leading research institutes from Arcansas, Bern, Berlin, Dortmund, München, Münster, Namur, Oslo, Princeton, Stanford, Tübingen, Wien and organisations like American Computing Machinery (ACM), Digital Object Identifier, Foundation (DOI), European Commission, Fraunhofer and International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI)