Managing intellectual property rights: from products to services (original) (raw)

An Introduction to the Management and Protection of Intellectual Property Rights

Advancing Corporate Frameworks, 2009

Copyright protection is becoming an important issue for organizations that create, use, and distribute digital content through e-commerce channels. As online corruption increases, new technical and business requirements are posed for protecting Intellectual Property Rights, such as watermarking, use of metadata, self-protection, and self-authentication. This chapter gives a review of the most important of these methods and analyses of their potential use in Digital Rights Management systems. We focus especially on watermarking, and argue that it has a true potential in e-business because it is possible to embed and detect multiple watermarks to a single digital artifact without decreasing its quality. In conjunction with parallel linking of content to metadata there is true potential for real life copyright-protection systems. Furthermore we attack the problem of DRM systems' interoperability with Distributed License Catalogues (DLCs). The DLC concept, borrowed from Web engineering, makes available ('advertises') content or services concerning DRM functionalities, enabling multiparty DRM eco-systems.

Intellectual property protection systems and digital watermarking

Optics Express, 1998

Adequate protection of digital copies of multimedia content -both audio and video -is a prerequisite to the distribution of this content over networks. Until recently digital audio and video content has been protected by its size: it is difficult to distribute and store without compression. Modern compression algorithms allow substantial bitrate reduction while maintaining high-fidelity reproduction. If distribution of these algorithms is controlled, cleartext uncompressed content is still protected by its size. However, once the compression algorithms are generally available cleartext content becomes extremely vulnerable to piracy. In this paper we explore the implications of this vulnerability and discuss the use of compression and watermarking in the control of piracy.

Digital Watermarking and Its Impact on Intellectual Property Limitation for the Digital Age

IGI Global eBooks, 2011

Digital media like audio, video, images and other multimedia documents can be protected against copyright infringements with invisible, integrated patterns. Such methods are based on steganography and digital watermarking techniques. Most watermarks are inserted as a plain-bit or adjusted digital signal using a key-based embedding algorithm. The embedded information is hidden (in low-value bits or least-significant bits of picture pixels, frequency or other value domains) and linked inseparably with the source data structure. For the optimal watermarking application, a trade-off between competing criteria like robustness, nonperceptibility, non-detectability and security have to be made. Most watermarking algorithms are not resistant against all attacks, and even friendly attacks like file and data modifications can destroy the watermark very easily. This paper gives an overview about the basic ideas of watermarking, application for e-business, problems and limitations.

Watermarking and Digital Rights Management -A Pilot DRM System Implementation and Technical Guidelines to Cultural Digitization Projects

The issue addressed in this paper is at first a brief presentation of the Technical Guidelines for IPR protection and management applied to Greek cultural digitization projects. Secondly, the work focuses on the analysis and implementation of a typical Digital Rights Management System for organizations and projects aiming at the digitization and exploitation of cultural content. Both Technical Guidelines and the DRMS are setting a solid framework for providing answers to a crucial and complex issue, the issue of the protection and management of intellectual property rights for analog and digital content.

Digital Watermarking for Protection of Intellectual Property

Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

Digital watermarking techniques have been developed to protect the copyright of media signals. This chapter aims to provide a universal review and background about the watermarking definition, concept and the main contributions in this field. The chapter starts with a general view of digital data, the Internet and the products of these two, namely, the multimedia and the e-commerce. Then, it provides the reader with some initial background and history of digital watermarking. The chapter presents an extensive and deep literature review of the field of digital watermarking and watermarking algorithms. It also highlights the future prospective of the digital watermarking.

A Distributed DRM Platform Based on a Web-Oriented Watermarking Protocol

Proceedings of the 5th Wseas International Conference on Software Engineering Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2006

This paper presents a distributed digital rights management platform (DRMp) based on a web-oriented watermarking protocol. The platform enables web service providers (SPs) to dynamically supply copyright protection services on behalf of web content providers (CPs) in a security context. Thus, CPs exploiting the platform can take advantage of copyright protection services supplied by SPs acting as trusted third parties (TTPs) without having to directly implement them. On the other hand, SPs can follow the proposed design approach to implement protection procedures that can be easily exploited by CPs without imposing a tight coupling among the involved web entities.

Digital Watermarks for Copyright Protection

2021

Digital watermarking is the process of embedding data to identify its owner or originator. It track the use of digital media and identifies the unauthorized use or access. Digital watermarking is embedding data’s in the form of text, video, audio, or images. There are two types of watermark classificationinvisible watermark and visible watermark. In invisible watermarking, information is added as digital data to audio, video, and images whose information that are not visible. While visible watermarking, the embedded information is visible in the form of a text or a logo. The data contained in the watermark includes the recipients of each copy so that any information that gets leaked can be traced back very easily. This tracing can be identified with the help of algorithms. Nowadays organizations are developing new digital watermark types in the form of noise. These noises are a type of digital watermark that assigns random data to exist electronic data. We have discussed digital wat...

Robust Digital Watermarking Techniques for protecting copyright Applied to Digital Data: A Survey

2021

The colossal prominence of the World Wide Web in the mid 1990's shown the business capability of offering media assets through the computerized networks. Since business intrigues look to utilize the advanced organizations to offer computerized media revenue driven, they have a solid interest in ensuring their proprietorship rights. Since the danger of utilizing media data, advanced fabrications, and unapproved sharing (robbery) of computerized content has expanded among content makers, merchants and clients. Today mixed media data theft alone has exposed all the enterprises to multi-billion income misfortunes. Customary advanced substance security methods, for example, encryption and scrambling, alone can't give satisfactory insurance of copyrighted substance, in light of the fact that these advances can't ensure computerized content whenever they are decoded. One approach to debilitate illicit duplication is to embed data known as watermark, into possibly weak informati...