Abstract: A digital rights network (10) includes a digital rights server (36) to store content consumer rights, defining access right of a content consumer with respect to content, and content owner rights defining access policies to the content as established by a content owner. A digital rights agent (28) is to perform cryptographic operations with respect to access operations relating to the content consumer rights and the content owner rights. The access operations include a first access operation with respect to the content consumer rights and a second access operation with respect to the content owner rights. The access operations relating to the content consumer rights and the content owner rights may be performed by anyone of a plurality of users of the digital rights network such as the content owner, a commerce service provider (42), a content distributor (20) and the content consumer. The commerce service provider (42) may be a customer relationship management operator.