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Digital Rights Management

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Digital rights management (DRM) is a term that encompasses mechanisms and protocols deployed by content publishers and rights holders to enforce access licensing terms. This entry discusses mainly DRM for relational data, specifically such methods as database watermarking. General DRM techniques are discussed elsewhere [20].

Historical Background

Historically, DRM methods have found ample application in consumer entertainment and multimedia industries since the late 1980s. More recently, with the advent of massive relational data management and warehousing systems, increasingly, valuable data has been produced, packaged and delivered in relational form. In such frameworks, DRM assurances have become an essential requirement. As traditional multimedia DRM mechanisms are ill-suited for the new data domain, starting in 2001, researchers developed mechanisms for relational data rights protection [1, 5, 10–15] mainly centered around the concept of deploying...

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  1. Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA

    Radu Sion

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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    Elena Ferrari

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Sion, R. (2014). Digital Rights Management. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_130-2

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