Watermarking and Digital Rights Management - A Pilot DRM System Implementation and Technical Guidelines to Cultural Digitization Projects

The issue addressed in this paper is at first a brief presentation of the Technical Guidelines for IPR protection and management applied to Greek cultural digitization projects. Secondly, the work focuses on the analysis and implementation of a typical Digital Rights Management System for organizations and projects aiming at the digitization and exploitation of cultural content. Both Technical Guidelines and the DRMS are setting a solid framework for providing answers to a crucial and complex issue, the issue of the protection and management of intellectual property rights for analog and digital content.