Digital Right Management in Internet Communication and Information Transfer

The result of the lack of operational proficient digital copyright protection include booming piracy market, lack of motivation for quality creative work and huge revenue loss. This research evaluates encryption based digital right management in internet communication and information transfer and identified major factors contributing to the incompetence of existing digital right management schemes. Data from the Nigeria Communication Commission and other sources were used to study the viability of applying mobile phone communication in digital right transactions. The research sought solution for digital copyright protection in Nigeria that will use the universal mobile phone, recharge cards and public key encryption. The proposed solution changed digital copyright protection from copyright content usage protection to copyright content redistribution protection and used short message service (SMS) of mobile phone service providers as means of communication and public key cryptography for content and transaction security. The solution reduced the required usage skill level and satisfied the Fair Use Policy enabling artists and authors to reach wider market with their products effectually without losing their revenue.