Digital Rights Management: Protecting and Monetizing Content provides readers with a broad understanding of content protection and digital rights management technologies, as well as the copyright and consumer issues that underlie them. This book covers the content revolution that is transforming the content industries, the evolving legal landscape, the technologies themselves, and the effects they will bring about. It is geared towards working professionals who need to understand how content security and DRM affect their businesses, now and in the future. These controversial technologies have an impact on every actor in the content industry value and supply chains, including consumers. Van Tassel lays out the arguments of all sides, giving executives the knowledge they need to make informed decisions about how they can best employ content protection and DRM technologies as they pursue successful and profitable content business strategies.