Towards Digital Rights and Exemptions Management Systems

This paper aims at linking researches in copyright law and in multimedia. It presents the core legal issues in the field of content protection and proposes a renewed approach to copyright enforcement. Stating the necessity of tackling the exemptions to copyright from a technical-based approach, it introduces the notion of Digital Rights and Exemptions Management Systems. The authors emphasize the need for moving into such DREMS protection schemes and examine the possibility to implement the “balance of interests” within the protection devices