Personal digital rights management for mobile cellular devices

Abstract

Driven by an unparalleled advance in network infrastructure support as well as a boom in the number of interconnected personal communication, computation and storage devices, the modern mobile customer experience has become increasingly compelling. Traditional barriers between the roles of information consumer and producer have disappeared. Users increasingly produce and distribute valuable and often personal content such as pictures and free or purchased copyrighted media. It becomes essential to enable user-level DRM controls for content access, data integrity and rights management. In this presentation we will overview the design and implementation of a a personal digital rights management system for mobile devices. The Personal DRM Manager enables user-defined ORCON-type controls for personal content originating in a cell phone or other mobile device. Users can transparently define, generate, package and migrate content licenses between mobile devices on-demand. Networked cellular devices cooperate in the enforcement mechanisms. © IFCA/Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.