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Regulating Information Distribution with Information Rights Management Systems

The computer has made the distribution of information easier than ever before. It has also made the infringement of copyrights a breeze and therefore there is the need for an information rights management (IRM) system to regulate how information is securely distributed and used to ensure the copyright owners benefit the most from income for their intellectual property. Information rights management is usually the term applied to the control of documents whereas digital rights management (DRM) is usually the term applied to the control of many types of digitized content such as music, movies, computer software, etc.

Information rights management enables copyright owners to regulate the use of their works in different ways. In the case of a document, you can determine who reads it and for how long it can be read. For subscription sales of your articles, you can determine the start and end calendar dates or a number of days since the document was first viewed. In cases of printing, you can determine if this can be done and if so, how many copies can be made. Photocopying of printed works can be discouraged by the use of dynamic watermarks displaying user details such as their name and email address. The use of document sharing can be controlled by confining documents to one computer and determining the number of users allowed to view the content.

Most people however reach out for information right management systems to help curb copying of their documents. With IRM you can regulate whether one can make copies for other parties to use, if certain parts of your work can be copied, and prevent the use of screen dumps. Using passwords as a protection mechanism has been deemed as useless since they can be easily shared or broken with password cracking software; modern IRM systems use public key technology of varying degrees to adequately safeguard copyrights.

Often with information right management systems, the decryption keys are retained on a licensing server. To open a protected document, you have to connect to a particular server which will determine if you are an authorized user based. Upon approval the decryption key will be transferred to your local computer and the document will be decrypted. Many IRM systems hold decryption keys within a secure keystore that is locked to an individual computer using encryption technology. Many document owners selling content use information rights management systems alongside payment systems to ensure that they receive their royalties automatically.

Information rights management with the help of cryptography has largely been successful so far. Cryptography is used to help enforce the document controls. With continuous innovation and improvement, the sky is the limit in upholding media copyrights.

PDF Protection by Safeguard PDF Security

LockLizard offers a range of PDF protection software that allows you to manage the users that have access to your PDF documents. We fully understand how much you value the content of your documents and make it our business to ensure the contents of your PDF documents are fully in your control.

Safeguard PDF Security offers PDF protection that allows you to control copying, printing, modifying and saving of your PDF files. For additional PDF protection, the software allows you to add watermarks to your documents.

Safeguard’s PDF protection also allows you to determine when and for how long users have access to your documents. You may either put an expiry date, or limit the times the document can be opened.

Safeguard PDF Security is a simple to use PDF protection tool with both online and offline protection for documents. It has several features that can be viewed by clicking on this link http://www.locklizard.com/pdf_security_features.htm.

PDF DRM Systems

Digital Rights Management (DRM) is quite vital when it comes to protecting intellectual property. Not many people are confident storing information on the internet as PDF files for the fear of someone stealing them. LockLizard offers PDF security software to aid you in securing your information. This is highly secure PDF DRM software prevents hackers stealing your documents.

The PDF DRM solution you chose has to be able to prevent unauthorised viewing, copying, editing or printing of the PDF document. Not only this, the PDF DRM system should ensure that printouts are made to real printers and not to temporary file storage locations.

Before purchasing the system, establish if your PDF DRM supplier can control screenshots; if not, you are not getting what you bargained for. You should also determine if the PDF DRM controller can regulate licence replication across networks. This may lead to your PDF document being accessed by the whole network.

Protection of PDF Documents using LockLizard Safeguard PDF Security

PDF documents may contain top secret information and as such they need to be protected from people who are not allowed to view them. With LockLizard Safeguard PDF Security one can easily control unauthorized copying, modification, saving and sharing of protected PDF documents. One may limit the number of times the document is viewed and how many times the document is printed. The publisher may even control the print screen options of such a document.

LockLizard Safeguard PDF Security enables the publisher to set up expiry dates for the document and also the user accounts. This controls the period within which the user has access to the publisher’s documents and also for how long a document can circulate.

The styles and presentation formats of protected documents can be made permanent using LockLizard Safeguard PDF Security. This option has the capacity to prevent the user from changing the document display properties and hence the document will always appear as the publisher needs it to be.