Human aspects of digital rights management: the perspective of content developers. [Journal Article]

Favale, Marcella; McDonald, Neil; Faily, Shamal; Gatzidis, Christos

Abstract

Legal norms and social behaviours are some of the human aspects surrounding the effectiveness and future of DRM security. Further exploration of these aspects would help unravel the complexities of the interaction between rights protection security and law. Most importantly, understanding the perspectives behind the circumvention of content security may have a significant impact on DRM effectiveness and acceptance at the same time. While there has been valuable research on consumer acceptability, (The INDICARE project, Bohle 2008, Akester 2009) there is hardly any work on the human perspective of content creators. Taking video games as a case study, this paper employs qualitative socio-legal analysis and an interdisciplinary approach to explore this particular aspect of content protection.

Citation

FAVALE, M., MCDONALD, N., FAILY, S. and GATZIDIS, C. 2016. Human aspects of digital rights management: the perspective of content developers. SCRIPTed [online], 13(3), pages 289-304. Available from: https://doi.org/10.2966/scrip.130316.289

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 1, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Dec 16, 2016
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2016
• Deposit Date: Sep 29, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 8, 2021
• Journal: SCRIPTed
• Print ISSN: 1744-2567
• Electronic ISSN: 1744-2567
• Publisher: University of Edinburgh
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 289-304
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.2966/scrip.130316.289
• Keywords: Digital rights management (DRM); Video games; Computer games; User behaviour; User perspectives; Systems security; Access and authorisation
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1437921