u-DRM: A Unified Framework of Digital Rights Management based on RFID and Application of Its Usage Data

Summary In the Internet, the digital format of most contents has led to its increased piracy because of the ease of copying and sharing the digital contents. Moreover, the advent of new technologies such as ubiquitous computing seems to cause problems of piracy even more than before. Likewise it’s going to be a more critical issue to control and manage rights of digital contents in the future. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a framework of u-DRM: a unified framework of DRM based on RIFD with watermarking and fingerprinting. The framework consists of two methods using digital mediums and digital contents. And we suggest ways for the application of usage data collected from the proposed framework of u-DRM.