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Originally Posted by ApK
It has been a noted point in many IP cases that showing you took action to protect your IP is important in itself, even if the method was ultimately ineffective.
If he ever did have to sue for any reason, having DRM on the work might be akin having a copyright notice on the printed page. The other party can't easily claim that they didn't know or have reason to think it wasn't a protected work.
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Do you have links to any such cases? I'd be interested to know the details.
I can see how having some form of protection would serve to give notice that it was a copyrighted work, but I would have thought a simple copyright notice would serve that purpose just as well.
Am I wrong? Would having DRM on the work provide more legal weight than a copyright notice? I'd have thought not, since anything can have DRM applied, whether it is protected by copyright or not.