A method is provided for the authorization management of digital contents between at least one owner of authorizations with a first electronic work environment and at least one user of the contents with a second electronic work environment. The owner of the authorizations provides the digital contents to the user of the contents by means of the first electronic work environment at a defined scope of authorizations and the user of the contents is entitled to use the provided digital contents on the second electronic work environment only at the defined scope of authorization. The digital contents are encoded with encryption, the encoded contents are exchanged between the first electronic work environment and the second electronic work environment and the encoded contents are subsequently decoded by means of decryption pertaining to the digital contents.