FRM: Towards a Semantic Platform for Fair Content Distribution

Abstract

Fair use policy allows legal owners to share products they bought with their acquaintance; it is based on the assumptions that the owners pass an original product and they cannot use it at the same time. In the digital world, we can hardly apply those assumptions since they are based on a physical availability. Furthermore, digital content providers want to have control over the distribution of their products; thus, Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems do not assist and even forbid sharing. We present Fair Rights Management (FRM) that is our work towards fair use in the digital world. We propose taking advantage of social networks and terms negotiations. We illustrate our approach by extending existing solutions with semantic descriptions. We describe how to apply and implement the proposed improvements in the standard DRM model. Finally, we evaluate our proposition with the most common fair use scenarios.