Two recent and related social developments of note for libraries are an upsurge in cultural participation enabled by Web 2.0 media and calls in government policy for enhanced innovation through education. Ironically, these have occurred at the same time that increasingly stringent copyright laws have restricted access to cultural content. Concepts of governmentality are used here to examine the...

There have been researches into digital watermarking technology or Fingerprinting vigorously to safeguard 'Protective rights for knowledge and poverty' for digital contents. DRM, Digital Rights Management, is not only 'Protective rights for knowledge and poverty', but also management and systems that are necessary to put out, circulate and use for contents. This technology, DRM, encrypts conten...

One of the creations protected by copyright is songs and/or music. Legal protection for them a necessity in order to create conducive climate development music industry Indonesia. In facilitate song writers with better control over their works, they can appoint representatives regulate management royalty, this case LMKN (The National Collective Management Institute). Law number 28 2014 concerni...