Protection of DIP using Object Oriented Modeling of DIPRMS in E-Commerce – An Indian Perspective

Copyright is used to protect the rights of the consumers and the creators of the Intellectual Property (IP). The ease of creation, modification, distribution, compatibility and above all, a large market opportunity drive the creator and the consumer to move towards digitization to create and use their IP in digital form called Digital Intellectual Property (DIP). In India the existing copyright law to protect IP is also applicable on DIP. But the same is not enough to protect the DIP in E-commerce environment and such weakness of the legal framework to accommodate the revolutionary technological changes cause a great economic loss. This discourages the creator of the DIP. The Digital Rights Management (DRM) system offers a new technological device that can be deployed in order to protect the creators from the DIP infringements caused by different kinds of attacks in the Internet during electronic transactions. Hence, this tool may also be used as a supplement to the copyright law in India particularly in E-commerce environment. In this present article an attempt has been made to design an Object Oriented Modeling based DIP protection system in E-commerce where the creator and the consumer can perform their commercial transactions safely by managing necessary IP rights efficient ly and securely. Under this system the creator of the DIP distributes the rights i.e. copying, printing, redistribution etc to the consumer of the DIP who has purchased the rights from the creator through the E-commerce system. Now, when the consumer of the digital rights downloads a DIP, DRM checks the consumer’s identity, contacts a financial clearing house i.e. PayPal, Visa etc. to make arrangement of the payments, decrypts the DIP, and assigns a key or a password for future access. The assign key or the password protects the DIP from being infringed and restricts its access, which is the primary goal of the copyright law.