Warner Music
chief executive Edgar Bronfman has come out fighting in favour of
digital rights management (DRM) technologies.
During a recent earnings conference call Bronfman responded to
Apple chief
executive Steve Jobs's open letter suggesting that music companies
should abandon digital copy protection.
Bronfman told PC World magazine: "The notion that music does not
deserve the same protection as software, film, video games or other
intellectual property, simply because there is an unprotected
legacy product in the physical world, is completely without logic
or merit."
Since Jobs's criticism of Warner, EMI, Sony and Universal over the
online sale of music containing DRM, Bronfman has been the first
executive of a major recording company to publicly take on the
idea, and has called on Apple to continue working with the
recording industry
