Regulatory Model for Digital Rights Management

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   • Cong Xu

   Pages 1-5

3. Theoretical Perspective of Digital Rights Management Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. Panorama of Digital Rights Management Systems

      • Cong Xu

      Pages 9-51

   3. Digital Rights Management Dilemma: Theoretical Context

      • Cong Xu

      Pages 53-89

4. Comprehensive Analysis of Digital Rights Management

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. Legislations

      • Cong Xu

      Pages 93-119

   3. Case Law Analysis

      • Cong Xu

      Pages 121-130

   4. Digital Rights Management Practices

      • Cong Xu

      Pages 131-149

5. Proposed Digital Rights Management Model in China

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151

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   2. Predicament and Countermeasure

      • Cong Xu

      Pages 153-173

6. Suggestions on the Improvement of Relevant Legal Systems in China

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175

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   2. A Comprehensive Regulatory Model

      • Cong Xu

      Pages 177-237

7. The Room for Perfecting China’s Digital Rights Management: Some Experience Can be Learned from Europe and America

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 239-239

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   2. Status Quo and Foreground

      • Cong Xu

      Pages 241-255

   3. Conclusion

      • Cong Xu

      Pages 257-257

​This book highlights the shortcomings of the present Digital Rights Management (DRM) regulations in China. Using literature reviews and comparative analysis from theoretical and empirical perspectives, it appraises different DRM restriction regulations and practices as well as current advice on balance of interests to analyze the dilemma faced by the DRM system.


This research intends to help China establish a comprehensive DRM regulatory model through comparative theoretical and empirical critiques of systems in America and Europe. A newly designed DRM regulatory model should be suitable for specific Chinese features, and should consist of government regulated, self-regulated, and even unregulated sections. The new regulation model might be an addition to existing legal structures, while self-regulations/social enforcement also would be as important as legislation based on case studies.

• Digital Rights Management (DRM)
• DRM Regulatory Model
• Intellectual Property
• Contextualism
• Intellectual Property Acculturation
• Chinese Traditional Culture
• Cultural Lag
• Reciprocal Determinism Theory
• Legal Transplantation
• Technological Protection Measures (TPM)

• Law School, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China

  Cong Xu

Cong Xu obtained the LL.B, LL.M (University of Leeds) degree in Intellectual Property law. She was the full scholarship holder of Erasmus Mundus Project, which was sponsored by the European Union. Cong Xu got her Ph.D degree in law science and technology (2016) from University of Bologna in Italy. During 2015-2017 she was a visiting scholar at the Max-Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich, Germany, Law School of Kyushu University. Currently she is an Assistant Professor in the Intellectual Property Academy (Law School) at Shanghai University. Her research interests include Intellectual property Law, Technology Regulation and Innovation Policy/Strategy Governance.

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