Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following aspects:

• New business models of virtual goods
• Peer-to-peer distribution systems
• Web service infrastructures of securing virtual goods
• Digital rights management: technical solutions, user acceptance
• Content protection (watermarking, encryption, signatures)

• Rights and policy expression languages, esp. but not only ODRL
• ODRL profiles and applications
• Rights expression/policy models
• Policy aware Web
• Interoperability within rights expression/policy languages

• Economic models of pure virtual environments (Second Life, etc)
• Underground markets: malware, copyright infringement, etc.
• Digital libraries
• Forensics of digital rights
• Economic role of the actors

• Impact on the society
• E-culture participation
• Social networks
• Social commerce