Content Providers’ Guide to Digital Rights Management

This guide intends to inform content providers as actual and potential users of DRM systems about risks and opportunities with respect to consumer acceptability. About this guide This guide is written by INDICARE team member Philipp Bohn, Berlecon Research, with input from Carsten Orwat and Knud Böhle, both from FZK-ITAS. The guide is based on findings of the INDICARE project. You are invited to send your comments on this guide to Philipp Bohn About INDICARE INDICARE is the " Informed Dialogue about Consumer Acceptability of DRM Solutions in Europe ". INDICARE has gathered an extensive body of experience and knowledge through its work and dialogue with industry stakeholders and interest groups. It initiated dialogue primarily through a peer-reviewed online journal, international expert workshops, interviews, and two major consumer surveys. The INDICARE project is conducted by the following partners: Disclaimer This publication is a deliverable of the INDICARE project. INDICARE is financially supported by the European Commission, DG Information Society, as an Accompanying Measure under the eContent Programme (Ref. EDC-53042 INDICARE/28609). This publication does not express the European Commission's official views. In its views and opinions the INDICARE project is independent from the European Commission and the views expressed and all recommendations made are those of the author/authors. Neither the European Commission nor the author/authors accept liability for the consequences of actions taken on the basis of the information contained in this publication. This document provides links to other internet sites for the convenience of users. The author/au-thors of this document is/are not responsible for the availability or content of these external sites, nor does/do the author/authors endorse, warrant, or guarantee the products, services, of information described or offered at these other internet sites. Copyright This publication is copyright protected and licensed under a Creative Commons License, allowing others to copy, distribute, display and perform this work in its entirety only if a) the author/au-thors is/are credited, b) it is used exclusively for non-commercial purposes. The author/the authors entirely reserve the right to produce derivative works on basis of this work or parts of it (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License; for more details, see