Business, Technology, and Law – Interrelations of Three Scientific Perspectives on DRM

Abstract

Technology, law and economics influence each other reciprocally at DRM, so that it is practically impossible, to make scientific statements on DRM from the point of view of one of these disciplines, without basing them on premises from the other disciplines. That makes systematic and purposeful further development of DRM difficult — progress made in one discipline runs the risk of being devalued by further developments in the other disciplines. Therefore the question poses itself of how the different scientific disciplines can be delimited from one another, so that reciprocal transfer of preliminary work between them is facilitated. On this a proposal is to be made below with reference to practical examples.