I just discovered this old interview from my convergence days. In April 2000 I said:

In order to control the value chain from content to consumer, companies who mainly produce content are looking for alliances, for example with service providers, network providers and device manufacturers. This is exactly what happened with the AOL/TimeWarner merger. A lot of viewers will be fooled by simply telling them: this is the new magic box and a wonderful world of digital TV will jump out of it.

It seems that I am still fighting the same battle…

in his Critique of “NAVSHP (FP6) DRM Requirements Report” Cory Doctorow claims:

Creative Commons licenses prohibit the use of DRM in connection with their use.

I have problems in finding this statement in the CC license. The CC licenses (example) foresee the following restriction:

You may not distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly digitally perform the Work with any technological measures that control access or use of the Work in a manner inconsistent with the terms of this License Agreement.

From this I conclude that a hypothetical DRM system which correctly interpretes the terms stated in the CC license agreement (e.g. does not restrict the Fair Use Rights) can use Creative Commons licenses.

Please correct me if I am wrong, but I have the feeling that Cory’s statement is a misinterpretation of the CC license.