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DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT
Description
of issue. The First
Amendment gives Americans the right to explore
ideas in books, music, and movies without having
to identify ourselves. The right to anonymity
is a vital foundation stone of our democratic
society. Our strong First Amendment tradition
protects people with dissenting, unpopular,
or controversial ideas.
But
the migration of print, music, and images to the
Internet has spawned new technologies called "digital
rights management" systems (DRM) that infringe
upon intellectual freedom. Copyright owners, including
the entertainment industry and publishers, are
attempting to monitor those who download copyrighted
files in order to prevent piracy and ensure payment
for their products. In developing DRM systems,
they threaten to create technologies that identify
those who read, listen to, and view Internet content.
The
companies that collect this information will be
able to develop profiles of those who access Internet
content. And as I've discussed elsewhere in this
report, with profiling comes the potential for
secondary uses to be made of that data, from marketing
to government surveillance.
Looking
ahead. Intellectual
property scholars point out that copyright
and privacy have traditionally been compatible
because copyright provisions control public distribution
of content. Private use of copyrighted
material has been governed by the fair use
doctrine, enabling individuals to make limited
copies for their own use.
But
DRM systems threaten to monitor private use by
implementing technologies that capture personally
identifiable information for each and every use.
A challenge for policymakers and industry is to
develop DRM systems that can confirm the eligibility of
individuals to access content without identifying
the actual user. Another challenge is to preserve
the principle of fair use.
Read the entire aricle here: http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/Privacy-IssuesList.htm
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