Re: DRM definition Re: What change could we make? (was Re: Letter on DRM in HTML)

Renato Iannella [2013-06-26T04:05]:
> On 25 Jun 2013, at 22:52, Karl Dubost <karl@la-grange.net> wrote:
>> 
>> * Could you define DRM in one or two lines?
> 
> Sure, happy to. 12 years ago [1] we defined it as:
> 
> "DRM covers the description, identification, trading, protection, monitoring and tracking of all forms of rights usages over both tangible and intangible assets including management of rights holders relationships"

ok that illustrates one of the core issues in our discussions. This is the formal definition of DRM as a system helping to manage the rights. But in the pop culture and inside this list I'm pretty sure that most people are using the term to say "content obfuscation without user control".



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