Digital Rights Management: information access roadblock

Digital Rights Management:information access roadblock

Jason Puckett, Georgia State UACRL webcastMarch 1, 2011

(me)jpuckett@gsu.edujasonpuckett.netadlibinstruction.blogspot.com@librarianjasonPSN: LibrarianX(not me)

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(Spoiler alert: DRM=bad)

what's DRM?technology thatprevents copyingrestricts information access

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how it works

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More about cryptography and DRM by Cory Doctorow:craphound.com/msftdrm.txt

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"Oh please god not microfilm. Please.“ –GSU professor, in an email to me

format informs utility

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format informs utility

DVD DRM:•region encoding•CSS (Content Scramble System)

what can DRM restrict?

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copyingdisplayingcopy/paste/printusage limitations

It also allowsmonitoring usagedeleting files…and?

copyright imbalance

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fair usenoncommercial/educationalnature of the workamount usedeffect on the value

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Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)

•Text of the DMCA: copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf•Info from Electronic Frontier Foundation: eff.org/issues/dmca•Latest DMCA exemptions: loc.gov/today/pr/2010/10-169.html

one-source devices“tethered appliances”

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Perlow, Jason. 2010. EPUB: The final barrier for Kindle Adoption. ZDNet. August 20. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/epub-the-final-barrier-for-kindle-adoption/13804.

user experience

disability accessAdobeMicrosoftAmazon

can disable read-aloud functions

preservation

xkcd.com/488

breaking news: HarperCollins26 checkouts per ebook purchase

boycott movement: boycottharpercollins.com

Twitter hashtag: #hcod

many more links: librarianbyday.net/2011/02/25/publishing-industry-forces-overdrive-and-other-library-ebook-vendors-to-take-a-giant-step-back/

false metaphors

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Colbow, Brad. 2010. Why DRM Doesn’t Work. March 1. http://bradcolbow.com/archive/view/the_brads_why_drm_doesnt_work/?p=205.

better models of DRM

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“social DRM”digital watermarkprivacy?

“Social DRM: Watermarking and Ex-Libris”http://blog.feedbooks.com/?p=82

Image: Alexei Kouprianov

DRM & games: Steam

what should we do about it?

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“Seventy percent of Springer’s business comes from research libraries…

“We showed them our original plans and they said, ‘Start over,’ with no DRM…

“Our policy is to give our customers whatever they want.”

Reid, Calvin. “Libraries Say ‘No DRM’; Springer Agrees.” Publishers Weekly, October 29, 2010.

full text at librarianinblack.net/librarianinblack/2011/02/ebookrights.html

Every eBook user should have the following rights:

• the right to use eBooks under guidelines that favor access over proprietary limitations

• the right to access eBooks on any technological platform

• the right to annotate, quote passages, print, and share eBook content within the spirit of fair use and copyright

Digital Rights Management (DRM), like a tariff, acts as a mechanism to inhibit this free exchange of ideas, literature, and information.

As a customer, I am entitled to be treated with respect and not as a potential criminal. As a consumer, I am entitled to make my own decisions about the eBooks that I buy or borrow.

the eBook User’s Bill of Rights

readers’ advisory

craphound.com/content remix.lessig.org thepublicdomain.org

jpuckett@gsu.edujasonpuckett.netadlibinstruction.blogspot.com@librarianjasonPSN: LibrarianX

Puckett, J. (2010). Digital Rights Management as information access barrier. Progressive Librarian, (34-35), 11-24.

Available at http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/univ_lib_facpub/50/

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thank you