System and method of processing documents protected under a digital rights management scheme

A system for processing a document having digital rights management privileges, the system comprising:

• a computing device;
• and
• a computer-readable storage medium in communication with the computing device, wherein the computer-readable storage medium comprises one or more programming instructions for:
• receiving a document to be processed according to a workflow, wherein the received document is associated with a license comprising one or more digital rights management (DRM) privileges,
• identifying one or more document production operations associated with the workflow, for each document production operation:
• determining whether the document production operation violates any of the DRM privileges associated with the document,
• in response to the document production operation violating one or more of the DRM privileges, assigning a first status to the document production operation, and
• in response to the document production operation not violating one or more of the DRM privileges, assigning a second status to the document production operation, and
• automatically causing only document production operations to which the first status is not assigned to be performed on the document.