Method and apparatus for assigning consequential rights to documents and documents having such rights
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1. A rights management system for managing and enforcing rights to use digital content, the system comprising:
- at least one repository for enforcing rights associated with content;
one or more consequential rights that are linked to another right and that are associated with respective content, and that are exercisable only upon satisfaction of a consequential event including expiration or exercise of the another right; and
a right management module that manages the one or more consequential rights by enforcing use of the respective content based on the consequential rights, and permitting exercise of the consequential rights only after the satisfaction of the conseciuential event including the expiration or exercise of the another right to thereby provide sequential access to the respective content in accordance with the another right and the consequential rights.
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Abstract
Through the use of digital rights management, one or more conditional or consequential rights can be associated with a document. The conditional or consequential rights are activated by one or more trigger events that allow or restrict access to one or more documents by one or more users.
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1. A rights management system for managing and enforcing rights to use digital content, the system comprising:
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at least one repository for enforcing rights associated with content; one or more consequential rights that are linked to another right and that are associated with respective content, and that are exercisable only upon satisfaction of a consequential event including expiration or exercise of the another right; and a right management module that manages the one or more consequential rights by enforcing use of the respective content based on the consequential rights, and permitting exercise of the consequential rights only after the satisfaction of the conseciuential event including the expiration or exercise of the another right to thereby provide sequential access to the respective content in accordance with the another right and the consequential rights. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method of managing and enforcing rights to use digital content in a system having at least one repository for enforcing rights associated with content of the digital works, the method comprising the steps of:
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electronically determining one or more consequential rights, the consequential rights being linked to another right and associated with respective content and being exercisable only upon satisfaction of a consequential event including expiration or exercise of the another right; associating the one or more consequential rights with the respective content; and enforcing use of the respective content based on the consequential rights, and permitting exercise of the consequential rights only after the satisfaction of the consequential event including the expiration or exercise of the another right to thereby provide sequential access to the respective content in accordance with the another right and the consequential rights. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A computer-readable medium storing one or more computer readable instructions for a digital rights management language for managing and enforcing rights to use digital content in a system having at least one repository for enforcing rights associated with content of the digital works, the computer readable instructions configured to cause one or more computer processors to perform the steps of:
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specifying one or more usage rights that define the manner in which content can be used; linking one or more consequential rights to another usage right and that are associated with respective content, the consequential rights being exercisable only upon satisfaction of a consequential event including expiration or exercise of the another usage right; and providing an enforcement instruction that enforces the use of the respective content based on the consequential rights, and permits exercise of the consequential rights only after the satisfaction of the consequential event including the expiration or exercise of the another usage right to thereby provide sequential access to the respective content in accordance with the another right and the consequential rights. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17)
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18. A computer-readable medium storing one or more computer readable instructions for managing and enforcing rights to use digital content in a system having at least one repository for enforcing rights associated with content of the digital works, the computer readable instructions comprising:
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an instruction that determines one or more consequential rights, the consequential rights being linked to another right and that are associated with respective content and exercisable only upon satisfaction of a consequential event including expiration or exercise of the another right; an instruction that associates the one or more consequential rights with one or more of the respective content; and an instruction that enforces use of the respective content based on the consequential rights, and permits exercise of the consequential rights only after the satisfaction of the consequential event including the expiration or exercise of the another right to thereby provide sequential access to the respective content in accordance with the another right and the consequential rights. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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