Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a topic of interest to a wide range of people from various backgrounds: engineers and technicians, legal academics and lawyers, economists and business practitioners. The two conferences on the issue held in 2000 and 2002 in Berlin, Germany, brought these people together for fruitful discussions. This book continues this process by providing insights into the three main areas that DRM in?uences and that DRM is influenced by: technology, economics, and law and politics. Looking at the first results of the two conferences we would like to emphasize three aspects. Firstly, DRM is a fairly young topic with many issues still - resolved. Secondly, there is still an acute lack of objective information about DRM and the consequences of using (or not using) DRM in our Information Society. And, finally, only open discussions amongst all the interested parties and people from different scientific and practical backgrounds can help to create a foundation on which DRM can actually become useful.

"There is the idea of the 'different' company. A company that after more than 100 years is now turning its back on production based on the division of work. In his introduction, Gtz Hamann, journalist for Die Zeit, describes the authors as engaged in an 'attack on capitalism'. Expert articles by such renowned authors as Andrew McAfee, Don Tapscott and David Weinberger are augmented by examples from Nokia, SAP and Vodafone in the quest to discover how Web 2.0 technologies can best be used as business tools, and how companies will need to change in order to survive as Enterprise 2.0 organizations. Not forgetting the question of whether it's worth it for company management. After all, Enterprise 2.0 necessarily implies that decision-makers must also 'let go' and give up their control. Yet are we really ready for this?" CIO

"This book can (...) certainly be of help in illuminating a fundamental change taking place in the business world." ChangeX Online Journal for Change in Society and the Economy

"The changeover to new ways of thinking in the enterprise requires everyone to undergo a multifaceted learning process." Associated Press

"The Ideas Man (David Weinberger) is once again proposing a revolutionary thesis: purge your company of as much control as possible." Financial Times Deutschland

"What we have here is a generational change." David Weinberger, in an interview for Spiegel Online

Willms Buhse untersucht die Folgen der aktuellen technischen Entwicklungen im Bereich der digitalen Musikverwertung aus betriebswirtschaftlicher Perspektive und geht der Frage nach, wie sich im Umfeld von Darknet und Digital Rights Management Geschaftsmodelle fur digitale Inhalte in Szenarien einordnen und analysieren lassen.