Fair use, DRM, and trusted computing

The increased commercial demand and use of sophisticated digital rights management (DRM) technologies due to the wide scale adoption of trusted computing principles in end-user systems is discussed. DRM includes a range of technologies that provide parties varying degrees of control over how digital content and services may be used, including by whom and under what conditions. DRM reference model grant usage rights based on originator-controlled policies, and these policies are explicit conditional statements specifying how to handle actions attempted on resources by authenticated actors. The newly developed distributed DRM model architecture would accommodate a more freeform textual statement of the intended use.