NDLI: A Novel Method for Supporting Fairness in Digital License Reselling

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Gaber, T. Ning Zhang
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	Current Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems permit a consumer to buy a digital license to access the corresponding content on his device. Under these current systems, however, the consumer is unable to resell the license.To allow the consumer to resell the license, all entities involved in the reselling process must be treated fairly. Fairness means that a reseller should obtain payment if and only if a buyer obtains the expected license and vice-versa. This paper presents a novel method to support fairness in reselling a digital license for DRM protected content. This method enables a reseller to fairly and securely exchange his/her license for payment from a buyer. In addition, it enables the reseller to maximize his profit and the buyer to minimize his cost in the same process.The method is designed such that the buyer can not cheat and the reseller has no incentive to do so. A practical mechanism is proposed to handle any misbehavior by the reseller. In comparison with related works, the method does not make use of any additional trusted hardware device, thus more cost-effective, while satisfying the interests of all the entities involved. The method also prevents reselling a non-resalable license and multiple reselling of the same license.
Starting Page	89
Ending Page	98
File Size	304003
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424467266
e-ISBN	9781424467273
DOI	10.1109/ICIMP.2010.19
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-05-09
Publisher Place	Spain
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Content management Reselling Deal Computerized monitoring Licenses Conference management Market power Concurent Signature Proposals Fairness Digital License Computer science Non-repudiation Hardware Internet Cryptography Protection DRM
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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