SECURE TRANSFER OF CONTENT OWNERSHIP

摘要

A method and system for ownership transfer of digital content, in a secure system using digital rights management (DRM) to handle user access to stored content, comprising receiving instructions from a first user being a current owner of a piece of content to transfer ownership of said piece of content to a second user, granting said second user an ownership takeover right to said piece of content, said ownership takeover right only being grantable by a current owner, receiving an accept from said second user, and identifying said second user as new current owner of said piece of content. According to this solution, the transfer of the ownership can be handled at the level of digital rights management, by introducing new rights (e.g. an "Ownership Takeover" right). This moves the ownership transfer protocol from the device specific implementations to the DRM specific implementations, which allows transfer of ownership between interoperable DRM systems.