A digital rights management system based on a scalable blockchain
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A digital rights management system based on a scalable blockchain Abba Garba1,2 · Ashutosh Dhar Dwivedi3 · Mohsin Kamal4,7 · Gautam Srivastava5,6 M. Anwar Hasan8 · Zhong Chen1,2
· Muhammad Tariq4,7 ·
Received: 16 June 2020 / Accepted: 28 October 2020 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Even though the Internet promotes data sharing and transparency, however it does not protect digital content. In today’s digital world, it has become a difficult task to release a DRM (Digital Rights Management) system that can be considered well-protected. Digital content that becomes easily available in open-source environments will in time be worthless to the creator. There may only be a one-time payment to creators upon initial upload to a given platform after which time the rights of the intellectual property are shifted to the platform itself. However, due to the online availability of content, anyone can download content and make copies. The value of digital content slowly decreases, because the value of content can usually be determined through the difficulty of it’s accessibility. There is no way to track the leakage or copyright for the spread of digital material. In this paper, a distributed media transaction framework for DRM is proposed, which is based on the digital watermarking and a scalable blockchain model. In this paper, our focus is on improving the classic blockchain systems to make it suitable for a DRM model. The DRM model in this paper allows only authorized users to use online content and provide original multimedia content. While the digital watermarking is used to reclaim the copyright ownership of offline contents in the event when the contents are leaked. Keywords Blockchain · Digital rights management · Scalability · Watermark · Unexpanded shares · Networks
1 Introduction Protecting the copyright of digital contents has always been very challenging. Once a digital content is uploaded to the Internet, it can be easily distributed everywhere through copies of digital files. A digital content that is widely spread may have zero value due to open access. Excessive spreading and free consumption of digital content almost always are detrimental for the owners’ or content providers’ benefit and causes monetary loss [27]. In areas such as photography, design, and e-commerce, the rampant spread
This article is part of the Topical Collection: Special Issue on Blockchain for Peer-to-Peer Computing Guest Editors: Keping Yu, Chunming Rong, Yang Cao, and Wenjuan Li Gautam Srivastava
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of piracy has brought incalculable losses to the owners. The creator of a content spends plenty of time and money on legal actions to prove his/her ownership of the content. The primary challenges in Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems are as follows: – –
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Digital content is freely available on the Internet without any restriction to download. Users are
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