Construct on Digital Rights Management for Historical Newspaper Archives

Abstract

Newspaper is one of the most important media as it contains the records that input the cultural data and social events, progress of national and international economical and political developments, the world's circumstances of the time, so as transmitting information and sharing knowledge of particular regions or around the globe. However, the copyright is limited to cover the transformed entity to digitized contents. In order to protect the rights of digitized-contents and restrict the scope of on-line grant of historical newspaper, it is necessary to clarify the proper concepts and practices. This study reveals the concepts of digital rights management via literature review that will work on both mentioned issues, so as to identify the fair use to assure the profit of digitized archive of historical newspaper. (Article content in Chinese with English abstract)

Keywords

• digital rights management
• historical newspaper
• digital archives
• framework design