With Digital Rights Management (DRM), the rights connected with ebooks can be controlled. These rights can be reported, as part of the context of the work itself, as an instruction or as a piece of information.

The copyright for Ellibs ebooks is safeguarded through technical protection. Technology developed by Adobe enables the distribution of ebooks via the Internet exclusively to users who have the rights to them. In practice, it's a matter of restricting the illegitimate use and distribution of ebooks by means of a new type of technology.