Works, Rights, and Exploitation

Works, Rights, and Exploitation	More than the preceding one, this chapter is outside of the mainstream standard development story. But the subject is important because the media coding standards developed by MPEG brought to light the fact that the principles on which a sizeable part of media business did not map directly to a digital world.
Craft, Intellect, and Art	People agree to pay for the work of a blacksmith or an attorney, but some consider it an option to pay for the performance of a singer or an actor. This chapter highlights the dilemma that has plagued artists for many centuries.
Fixating Works	This section analyses how technology was used to help the distribution of literary and artistic works.
Rights	The rights to a hammer are obvious, those to a book less so, the problem of tights to a bunch of bits with the meaning of an artistic work were brought to light by MPEG standards.
Protecting Rights	One obvious solution to enforce rights is by protecting bit from unauthorised users. This section analyses the issues behing doing it.