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Originally Posted by HarryT
Only to people who are unaware of the actual meaning of the phrase "Digital Rights Management". To those who are aware of its meaning, it is entirely self-evident that watermarks are a form of DRM.
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Here's a link to an article today by Nate Hoffelder about DRM which peripherally discusses whether digital watermarking is DRM:
http://the-digital-reader.com/2015/0...rm-in-germany/
I don't claim to have any kind of authoritative answer but I really like what the linguists say about dictionaries, that they're descriptive and not prescriptive, and I think that might apply here. Words have the meanings we give them, and that's always changing.
Here's a quote from Wikipedia:
"Digital rights management (DRM) is a class of copy protection technologies that are used by hardware and software manufacturers, publishers, copyright holders, and individuals with the intent to control the use of digital content and devices after sale; there are, however, many competing definitions. With first-generation DRM software, the intent is to control copying; with second-generation DRM, the intent is to control executing, viewing, copying, printing, and altering of works or devices. The term is also sometimes referred to as copy protection, copy prevention, and copy control, although the correctness of doing so is disputed. DRM is a set of access control technologies."
Further down that page there are descriptions that even include simple restrictive licensing under the term DRM.
Barry