The Web Services Growing Importance for Drm Interoperability

One of the most important trends in the present day computing model is the service oriented approach to the distribution of applications and services over the Internet. The paradigm model behind the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) encompasses the possibility to potentially have completely heterogeneous application architecture in which each of the services provided can be implemented in their own environment and providing their own functionalities in their own language, but contributing globally for the same end. One of the applications that can beneficiate enormously by this approach is Digital Rights Management (DRM). The following paper proposes the implementation of the main DRM functionalities over a Web Services based architecture, as a mean to achieve interoperability between different DRM solutions. The authors also present an example of a DRM solution implemented having in mind this paradigm, as a mean to extend the support for the DRM functionalities.