Digital Rights Management in ContentHub

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Setting the scene 

Ever since the acquisition of StyleLabs by Sitecore, I've been interested in the platform and its capabilities.

ContentHub, as the product under the Sitecore umbrella is now referred to, comes with quite a set of platform capabilties alltogether. It serve primarily as a DAM platform, but has strong ties and capabilities into PIM, CMP and so on. As well as some capabilities towards print, obviously on collaboration but also on DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Over the course of the numerous CH (ContentHub) trainings that I've partaken in so far, the concept and functionality of the DRM module came up a few times.

This first post will just show the details of DRM in ContentHub

What is the DRM in ContentHub?

Found on the main navigation, DRM opens up into the DRM contacts screen as shown below:

DRM dashboard

Note that the above are obviously dummy contracts in a DEMO.
When new contracts need to be created or existing need to be edited:

Manage contract

Inside such a DRM Contract, the information is available (as entered before, combined with possible uploads of the actual contracts):


Next to that, the digital rights profiles can be coupled into this contract. These describe specific aspects of a collaboration or detailed scoped contracts:



The fields and values available on these detail screens can be configured in ContentHub to be more elaborate or match your specific needs. 

Onto this rights profile, assets can be coupled:


Important to note is that assets can be coupled to multiple contracts / rights profiles.

DRM on assets

 

When performing a download request for an asset, DRM is taken into account if and when a product is coupled to DRM contracts / rights profiles:


The specifics for the requested download need to be taken into account:




If no rights are available, or explicit authorization is simply required for a specific asset, it is possible to request authorization:





Project DRM Requests



In the DRM requests overview, users with DRM access and approval rights (DRM Everyone role) are provided with an overview of all open requests:


And finally, in the details, the requests can be handled and provided with the correct status in order to handle the download request:




In the next blogpost, I'm going into a little more detail on the possible (and expected) behavior with multiple contracts and/or profiles for the same (set of) assets.

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