"Digital rights are important for everyone, regardless of age, background or location, " said Ms Charman.
Most of the agents wanted to auction off print and digital rights to the highest bidder.
Digital Rights Management (DRM) has long been the subject of controversy in the gaming industry.
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From the beginning, EFF has championed the public interest in every critical battle affecting digital rights.
Digital rights organisation the Open Rights Group said the result could set a "dangerous" precedent.
Legal action by Megaupload and digital rights groups stopped anything happening to the servers.
Some experts believe that the company that succeeds in digital rights management will dominate broadband.
When you can stream your content on the run, digital rights management (DRM) does not bother you.
Lawyers for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which campaigns on digital rights, said the sentence was unjust.
At that time a lot of companies wanted to crack the code on seamless digital rights management.
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It will clearly be able to handle digital rights management and deal with high definition digital video.
Sony BMG is planning to sell songs without digital rights management, according to a report Friday on BusinessWeek.com.
In August 2007, Hasbro sold the digital rights to Scrabble and other games to the Redwood City, Calif.
And digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said it had then helped Amazon "review" the case.
The implications for consumers are enormous, as is the potential revenue stream for companies that provide digital rights technology.
And that, some say, could open the door for Nintendo, which does not have digital rights management on its games.
Much of iStock's success in selling digital stock can be attributed to creative tinkering with the economics supporting digital rights.
Many of the largest artists opted out claiming that their labels did not have digital rights to sell their recordings.
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Others in the sports media industry agree that re-acquisition of its digital rights will only fuel further growth for NASCAR.
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Digital rights management is designed to protect content from piracy but it also limits how and who uses the material.
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Hanni Fakhoury, an attorney at digital rights non-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation, says your privacy rights at the border are limited.
Megaupload, digital rights groups and the company left holding the data have called for it to be released to users.
The titles will be protected by digital rights management software to prevent the programmes being traded illegally on the internet.
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Among those pressing Congress to take action is the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a digital rights group based in San Francisco.
The technique the driver uses to prevent printing is a feature of the PDF format and is really Digital Rights Management (DRM).
What the British want to see is a Digital Copyright Exchange, a market where digital rights can be processed rapidly and cheaply.
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One possible driving factor for growth in 2013 is the fact that in 2013, NASCAR will re-acquire its digital rights from Turner.
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The digital rights management (DRM) issue has also worked to Amazon's benefit.
When I worked at EMI, I did lots of media interviews about the challenges the music industry faced, especially around digital rights management.
"There are some advantages to being an application, " said Parker Higgins of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group that promotes digital rights.
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