Information Society Watch

January 29, 2008, BBC News

A web-archive developed by the aboriginal Australian community opens up a new set of possibilities in the area of Digital Rights Management (DRM). This grew out of the social mores and needs that have been embedded in the community over centuries, which filters out different content based on certain parameters which may be linked to gender, family or tribe. The cultural artefact repository has therefore shown a way to build content which can be access controlled based on profiles while not sacrificing usability, thus leading to significant enhancement in the development and application of DRM technologies.

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