A License Transfer System for Supporting Content Portability in Digital Rights Management

  • Qiong Liu
  • Reihaneh Safavi-Naini
  • Nicholas Paul Sheppard
Conference paper
Part of the IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology book series (IFIPAICT, volume 181)

Abstract

Current digital rights management systems typically bind the right to use content to a particular device whose location cannot be changed easily. Users may find it difficult to acquire a new license for each device. We propose a license transfer system that allows the user to share a license between devices and uses transaction track files to ensure that only one device can use the license at a time. We analyze the security properties of the proposed system.

Key words

digital rights management content portability license transfer 
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© International Federation for Information Processing 2005

Authors and Affiliations

  • Qiong Liu
    • 1
  • Reihaneh Safavi-Naini
    • 1
  • Nicholas Paul Sheppard
    • 1
  1. 1.Center for Information Security, School of Information Technology and Computer ScienceUniversity of WollongongAustralia

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