Print management system for production of printed documents with owner's rights management has printer that receives protected document file and in response to authorisation signal for printing at least one printed document

摘要

A policy enforcement application (303) is used for enforcing a document management policy for a protected document (302) file. At least one printer may receive the protected document file, refer to the policy enforcement application, and in response to an authorisation signal received from the policy enforcement application, to print at least one printed document. Independent claims are included for: (a) a system for management of rights in digital data (b) a document management entity (c) a policy enforcement entity (d) a printer device capable of carrying out secure printing of documents according to a given policy document handling policy (e) a method for secure management of content data in an on-line environment (f) a method for applying a policy data to a document file (g) a computer program comprising program instructions for causing a computer to perform the process of secure content handling