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8 November, 2002
Digital rights management in the Higher Education sector

This is a comprehensive report on all aspects of digital rights management (DRM). It looks at rights issues and the potential benefits for online education. As the executive summary says "In a thriving online learning and information environment, there will be extensive movement of learning and information resources and re-use, or repurposing, is integral to the way online learning takes place. The complexities of managing rights in such dynamic environments are considerable and it is for this reason that DRM is of key importance to the online learning marketplace". The full report is available as a pdf file.