MP: British Library Must Lead The Charge On DRM
Talkback Finally someone is championing the need for a debate on DRM - it's high time the UK had a radical rethink of the systems and processes behind content delivery in today's digital age. Wyatt's suggestion of involving the British Library as an...
[March 16, 2006, 18:13]
MP: British Library Must Lead The Charge On DRM
Talkback No, nothing should lead DRM. It's blindingly simple to bypass DRM in whatever form so why waste (tax) money and time on it? Why do record companies demand a single vendor DRM solution? Will DRM secure our important data?
[March 21, 2006, 22:55]
British Library Calls For Digital Copyright Action
Talkback DRM? Domestic Rights Manipulation. When will politicians learn that if commercially sponsored lobbiests can't have it one way then they'll try it another way? Their goal is quite simple. Controlling the access to your own data.
[September 27, 2006, 23:52]
British Library Calls For Digital Copyright Action
Talkback DRM and non-free formats share some of the same threats. And that one uses DRM. This said at the same time the BL is looking to get locked into MOOX? Few applications expected to support MOOX in the near future, actually just one.
[September 25, 2006, 16:38]
British Library Lends Itself To Intellectual-property Wisdom
Leader It is hard, then, to think of a more appropriate calling or a more appropriate institution to examine the implications of DRM, which tries not only to impose the most severe of the restrictions that applied to physical media but to impose yet more...
[March 15, 2006, 14:35]
MP: British Library Must Lead The Charge On DRM
News Derek Wyatt MP has called on the British Library to lead the debate on digital rights management (DRM), and present the results to government. The British Library and [chief executive] Lynne Brindley should take the lead in organising and running...
[March 14, 2006, 16:25]
British Library Calls For Digital Copyright Action
News Current digital rights management (DRM) technologies and licensing agreements can impose restrictions on copying content that go beyond the requirements of copyright law. DRM is a technical device, but it's being used in an all-embracing sense.
[September 25, 2006, 13:50]
DRM Is Failing, MPs Told
News Appearing at a hearing conducted by the All-Party Parliamentary Internet Group (APIG), senior representatives from the British Library said they were frustrated that DRM is stopping librarians from giving the public long-term access to content.
[February 2, 2006, 16:25]
Campaigners Back Call For DRM Debate
News An MP's suggestion that the British Library moderate the debate over digital rights management (DRM) and copyright law has been welcomed by cyber rights campaigners. Suw Charman, executive director of The Open Rights Group, said on Wednesday that...
[March 15, 2006, 14:25]
Anti-DRM Day Announced
News The British Library said the technology was hampering its ability to use digitised material within the context of a library, and the Royal National Institute for the Blind claimed DRM stopped certain e-books working with software designed to make...
[September 1, 2006, 13:55]
Digital Rights And Digital Wrongs
Leader The All Party Parliamentary Internet Group has been listening to those to whom DRM causes actual harm - people such as the British Library, which has a legal obligation to keep records of all publications in the UK, and the Royal National...
[February 3, 2006, 13:05]
