The Promises and Perils of Digital Rights Management

Peter Wayner

2:00pm Friday December 3, 1999
Lecture Hall V, ECS

This talk will review some of the techniques being developed by companies to control access to digital information. While the programmers are trying hard to make reading a text or watching movie indistinguishable from reading a book or going to a movie theatre, the lawyers are trying hard to create new rules to maximize profits. The talk will discuss many of the possible solutions and provide an overview of the legal landscape.