Title :
Watermarking-based copyright protection of Internet-delivered multimedia
Author :
Bartolini, F. ; Piva, A. ; Barni, M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Telecommun., Florence Univ., Italy
Abstract :
Watermarking has been invoked as a tool for the protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of multimedia data distributed in digital form. The most important issues to be considered when designing a watermarking-based Electronic Copyright Management System (ECMS) are discussed, and a new system is presented which exploits state-of-the-art watermarking technology to enable IPR protection in open-network environments. The proposed system is an object-oriented one: at any given time, the information needed to prove the legal/illegal use of the data is hidden within the data itself, whereas no attempt is made to trace previous abuses.
Keywords :
Internet; copy protection; data encapsulation; industrial property; multimedia systems; object-oriented programming; open systems; ECMS; IPR protection; Internet-delivered multimedia; intellectual property rights; legal/illegal use; multimedia data; object-oriented system; open-network environments; state-of-the-art watermarking technology; watermarking based electronic copyright management system; watermarking-based copyright protection; Brushless DC motors; Copyright protection; Cryptography; Data engineering; Environmental management; Intellectual property; Internet; Law; Technology management; Watermarking;
Conference_Titel :
Web Delivering of Music, 2001. Proceedings. First International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1284-4
DOI :
10.1109/WDM.2001.990156