Analysis of Digital Rights Management for the Consumer Behaviors and the Implications for the Digital Content Industry

DOI

10.2991/icmt-13.2013.38How to use a DOI?

Keywords

information consumption. digital content. digital right management.

Abstract

With the rapid development of ICT technologies, the digital content copyright infringement has become more and more convenient and common. As a result, DRM (digital rights management) are introduced in order to protect all kinds of digital content from being pirated. This paper researches the controversial DRM and its impacts on consumer infringements. Firstly, the utility and the function of consumer behavior is analyzed and constructed as well as digital content market welfare under digital rights management environment. Secondly, the effects of different factors, such as price, valuation and pirate penalty on consumer behaviors and their relationships with market profits are studied elaborately. Finally, we draw conclusions as well as suggestions that are helpful to alleviate digital content pirate and manage the digital rights effectively.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Li Xiong
AU  - Peng Chen
PY  - 2013/11
DA  - 2013/11
TI  - Analysis of Digital Rights Management for the Consumer Behaviors and the Implications for the Digital Content Industry
BT  - Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Multimedia Technology(ICMT-13)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 309
EP  - 316
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icmt-13.2013.38
DO  - 10.2991/icmt-13.2013.38
ID  - Xiong2013/11
ER  -