Evaluation Criteria for Digital Rights Management Schemes with Focus on Music e-business

摘要

In this paper we developed a set of common criteria that can be used to evaluate both open and proprietary DRM schemes that are intended for protecting digital music. Our criteria take into account issues that are important for both the content provider as well as the end-user. We conclude that the end-user is likely to benefit from an open and standardised scheme as it will not create vendor or device lock-in. However, the thorough standardisation process might take too long time for the content providers.