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    The management of digital rights in Pay TV

    Cowie, C. and Kapur, Sandeep (2005) The management of digital rights in Pay TV. Working Paper. Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK.

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    Abstract

    Successful roll-out of Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions has the potential to transform the economics of pay television. This paper explains how a technology that is being developed as a potential solution to the challenge posed by the widespread theft of intellectual property (piracy) may ultimately support the development of new business models. These new business models could trigger a radical change in the sources of market power in the supply chain, increasing the bargaining power of content companies relative to vertically integrated platform operators. The paper examines some of the regulatory challenges that the new business models and the new technology raise

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    Item Type: Monograph (Working Paper)
    Additional Information: BWPEF 0510
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): Digital rights management, pay television, competition
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School
    Research Centres and Institutes: Innovation Management Research, Birkbeck Centre for
    Depositing User: Administrator
    Date Deposited: 05 Apr 2019 08:17
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:50
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/27037

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