II. Moving forward: Technical trends
Technical trends: Digital rights management
A set of trusted system technologies and usage rights languages to encode rights into copyrighted works
Controls access to and use and distribution of the work
DRM technology secures content (HTML, PDF, MP3 files) by creating a digital wrapper
It includes an encryption algorithm to decrypt the content
Can have access control, requiring a password or digital certificate to retrieve a decryption key from a specialized server
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