DigiRight: Relevance to and potential impact on Europe's need to strengthen the science and technology excellence on DRM

In today's fast changing digital environment where global communications transcend national boundaries, and where digital products are sold on international markets, the development of digital rights management (DRM) in order to protect digital assets is becoming an increasingly important global issue, and is emerging as a formidable new challenge since the different national laws, policies and practices must interoperate and be reconciled. To address these challenges, we have therefore proposed to establish a Network of Excellence for a Framework for Policy, Privacy, Security, Trust and Risk Management for DRM, DigiRight, that will consist of teams of experts on technology and development, business, law, ethics, and societal questions who will organize on-going and future high quality research on those areas of their respective disciplines that apply to DRM. This paper describes DigiRight's relevance to and potential impact on Europe's need to strengthen and reinforce science and technology excellence on DRM.