This article is a set of PowerPoint slides encoded in PDF format - probably the worst way to present information there is: it's both needlessly bulky and hard to read. Normally I wouldn't even bother linking to such a travesty of presentation but in this case you should at least skim the content. The proposal is that the field of Digital Rights Management (DRM) ought to move from a focus on encryption and enforcement to a focus on management mechanisms - after all, when dealing with educational institutions, we are dealing with a network of trusted users. The presentation outlines an Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) which to me seems like a reasonable way of approaching the task. Many more useful concepts in this article make it worth the wait for the download.
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