Seminar Digital Rights Management
Corresponding entry in Aachen Campus, Bonn University.
Lecture
Prof. Dr. Joachim von zur Gathen, Daniel Loebenberger
Time & Place
- Monday, 1800, b-it 2.1
If you are interested in the seminar, please write an email to Daniel Loebenberger containing the keyword "Seminar Digital Rights Management" in the subject.
Allocation
2 SWS, 4 credits
- Media Informatics, Computer and Communication Technology.
- University of Bonn - Computer Science, A.
- University of Bonn - Mathematics.
Prerequisites
None.
Contents
Digital Right Managements (DRM) is the set of rules and techniques which help the producers of digital media to make sure that their products can be enjoyed by consumers but that intellectual property rights are being aspected. Currently DRM is concerned with actions like copy protection, licensing, tracking the frequency of use. The seminar deals with, but is not limited to the following topics:
- legal aspects of DRM in Europe,
- DRM in industry (Fairplay and Windows DRM)
- trusted computing and DRM, and watermarking.
If you are interested in a particular topic you are invited to propose it.
Schedule of presentations
Here is the timeline for the seminar:
- 03 November 2008: Jonas T. Özgan, "Why digital rights management? A survey" (slides) (report)
- 10 November 2008: Daniela Ritter, "Legal and technical aspects of digital rights management" (slides) (report)
- 17 November 2008: Christian Mertens, "Trusted computing and digital rights management" (slides) (report)
- 24 November 2008: Fritz Bollmann, "Software protection techniques" (slides) (report)
- 01 December 2008: Sina Golesorkhi, "Watermarking techniques" (slides) (report)
- 08 December 2008: Diana von Gallera, "Attacks on watermarks" (slides) (report)
- 15 December 2008: Ramesh Turshani, "Windows DRM and Fairplay" (slides) (report)
- 05 January 2009: Roman Saul: A survey on steganographic techniques
- 12 January 2009: Patrick Wall: Statistical Models for Steganographic Systems
- 19 January 2009: Ayush Sharma: Reductionist Security for Signature Schemes
- 26 January 2009: Joachim Nock: Reductionist Security for Steganographic Systems
- 02 February 2009: Sebastian Knott: Reductionist Security for Encryption Schemes