The ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management is an international forum that serves as an interdisciplinary bridge between areas that can be applied to solving the problem of Intellectual Property protection of digital content. These include: cryptography, software and computer systems design, trusted computing, information and signal processing, intellectual property law, policy-making, as well as business analysis and economics. Its purpose is to bring together researchers from the above fields for a full day of formal talks and informal discussions, covering new results that will spur new investigations regarding the foundations and practices of DRM.
This year's workshop, the ninth in the series, continues this tradition. As in the previous editions, it is sponsored by ACM SIGSAC and is held in conjunction with the ACM Conference in Computer and Communications Security (CCS).
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Content identification including digital watermarking and fingerprinting
Anonymous publishing, privacy and DRM
Architectures for DRM systems
Security issues, including authorization, encryption
Supporting cryptographic technology including traitor tracing, broadcast encryption
Software tamper resistance, obfuscation, watermarking, plagiarism detection
Threat and vulnerability assessment
Trusted computing, attestation, hardware support for DRM, side-channel attacks
Usability aspects of DRM systems
Web services related to DRM systems
Implementations and case studies
Regulatory authority for DRM, interoperability
Business models for online content distribution, risk management
Copyright-law issues, including but not limited to fair use
Digital policy management
DRM and consumer rights, labeling and competition law