The scope of OMA Digital Rights Management is to enable the controlled consumption of digital media objects by allowing content providers to express usage rights, e.g., the ability to preview DRM content, to prevent downloaded DRM content from being illegally forwarded (copied) to other users, and to enable new business models with superdistribution of DRM content. A complete DRM technology is, however, not in scope of OMA DRM. The basic DRM features - preview and copy protection - are included because of the urgency to deploy a standardised solution.

OMA DRM uses the following DRM components, found in most DRM systems:

• Rights Expression Language
• Content format
• Metadata. Data about the media object used to: (a) identify content (a URI [RFC2396]); and (b) help the user