Washington D.C. USA - October 25, 2004

Call for Papers

Digital Rights Management (DRM) is an area of pressing interest as the Internet has become the center of distribution for digital goods of all sorts. The business potential of digital content distribution is huge, as are its economic, legal and social implications. DRM, as a technical interdisciplinary field, is at the heart of controlling the digital content and assuring authorized, user friendly, safe, well-managed, automated, and fraud-free distribution. The field of DRM combines cryptographic technology, software and systems research, information and signal processing methods, legal, social and policy aspects, as well as business analysis and economics.

Original papers on all aspects of Digital Rights Management are solicited for submission to DRM 2004, the Fourth ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• anonymous publishing
• architectures for DRM systems auditing
• business models for online content distribution
• computing environments and platforms for DRM systems.
• copyright-law issues, including but not limited to fair use
• digital policy management
• implementations and case studies
• privacy and anonymity
• risk management
• robust identification of digital content
• security issues, including but not limited to authorization, encryption, tamper resistance, and watermarking.
• software related issues.
• supporting cryptographic technology including but not limited to traitor tracing, broadcast encryption, obfuscation.
• threat and vulnerability assessment.
• usability aspects of DRM systems.
• web services related to DRM systems.

The DRM 2004 workshop is fourth in the series of annual DRM workshops. DRM 2001 was held at Philadelphia, PA, USA (post-proceedings by Springer), and DRM 2002 (post-proceedings by Springer) as well as DRM 2003 (proceedings by ACM Press) were held at Washington D.C, all three collocated with the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. The success of the previous three events established DRM as a prime venue in the area of Digital Rights Management. DRM 2004 is sponsored by the ACM SIGSAC and is held in conjunction with the 11th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. Accepted papers will be published in a proceedings volume by ACM Press and distributed at the time of the workshop.

Instructions for Authors

Submissions must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submissions should be at most 15 pages excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices, using at least 11-point font and reasonable margins. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, and thus submissions should be intelligible without them. Each submission should start with the title, abstract, and names and contact information of authors . The introduction should give background and summarize the contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist reader.

Electronic Submission: All submissions will be handled electronically. Detailed description of the electronic submission procedure can be found at at this locationl. The deadline for submissions is July 1, 2004 July 13, 2004 .

Decisions and Presentation: Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to authors by August 25, 2004 . Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference.

Conference Proceedings: Proceedings will be published in ACM Press and will be available at the conference. Clear instructions about the preparation of a final proceedings version will be sent to the authors of accepted papers. The final copies of the accepted papers will be due on September 5, 2004.

Back to Main