Nowadays, network infrastructures are increasingly
used in support to commercialization of digital
multimedia content. Non-material goods (videos,
music, images and any other type of multimedia
information) are migrating from traditional delivery
technologies to a full-electronic delivery model.
Incidentally, the same features that make the
management of digital content so easy are also
responsible for the difficulties of selling it
on-line. Digital information as it is can be easily
copied an unlimited number of times and transferred
to an unlimited number of people. Thus it is of
crucial importance for the digital multimedia market
to insure that the holders of intellectual property
over the content are appropriately rewarded and that
only authorized parties can access the valuable
information.
The goal of this work is to describe how to implement
interoperable protection systems by providing a
behavioral description of terminal reactions to given
inputs. This approach will enable the implementation
of Intellectual Property Management and Protection
(IPMP) tools allowing both wide interoperability
among different platforms and rapid reconfiguration
in case of tampering.
used in support to commercialization of digital
multimedia content. Non-material goods (videos,
music, images and any other type of multimedia
information) are migrating from traditional delivery
technologies to a full-electronic delivery model.
Incidentally, the same features that make the
management of digital content so easy are also
responsible for the difficulties of selling it
on-line. Digital information as it is can be easily
copied an unlimited number of times and transferred
to an unlimited number of people. Thus it is of
crucial importance for the digital multimedia market
to insure that the holders of intellectual property
over the content are appropriately rewarded and that
only authorized parties can access the valuable
information.
The goal of this work is to describe how to implement
interoperable protection systems by providing a
behavioral description of terminal reactions to given
inputs. This approach will enable the implementation
of Intellectual Property Management and Protection
(IPMP) tools allowing both wide interoperability
among different platforms and rapid reconfiguration
in case of tampering.