Digital rights and privacy policies management as a service

Controlling, protecting and managing access to multimedia content could be a difficult task if a system was not prepared for it. To solve this situation minimizing the impact on the existing system, we propose the use of a modular architecture which provides digital rights and privacy policies management features. It can be integrated just invoking some web service calls, depending on which services are needed. To show its use, we present several scenarios where we have successfully integrated it, like distribution of content for digital terrestrial television broadcasting and access to personal health information.