INDICARE Monitor About Consumer and User Issues of Digital Rights Management Solutions

An INDICARE-interview with Arnoud de Kemp about DRM in scientific publishing marks the start of this issue; six contributions related to the entertainment business follow: the fight against "piracy" is dealt with in an INDICARE-interview with Tim Kuik (BREIN Bescherming Rechten Entertainment Industrie Nederland), the successful fight of consumers for their rights is exemplified by a decision of the Cour d' Appel de Paris (Mulholland case), and opinions of "Indies" about DRM are collected in a third article. Further articles tackle developments at the level of DRM technology providers: first, agreements of Microsoft with Philips, Nokia and CoreMedia are analysed, second, lessons are drawn from the recent DRM Strategies Conference held in New York, and third the chances of DMP (Digital Media Project) to establish an open DRM standard are assessed. Finally, Nicholas Bentley presents a new conceptual approach how to best regulate the distribution of copyrighted works in a digital environment.