A Method of Fair Use in Digital Rights Management^*

Yong Zhong^1,2, Zhu Zhen², Dong-mei Lin², and Xiao-lin Qin ³

¹Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, 210094 Nanjing, China
zhongyong@fosu.edu.cn

²Information and Education Technology Center, Foshan University, 528000 Foshan, China

³Institute of Information Security, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 210016 Nanjing, China

Abstract. Fair use is a difficult problem to implement in DRM systems due to its vagueness and uncertainty. We propose a fair use mechanism based on rights assertion without limitation, audit logging and misuses trigger, which brings a fair use mechanism nearer to offline world than that of existing DRM systems.

Keywords: Intellectual property rights, fair use, digital rights management

^*This paper is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 60673127.

LNCS 4822, p. 160 ff.

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