08-18-2007, 04:43 AM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Seems that amateur Artists (photographers, singers, etc.) are amateurs in protecting their works too.
It's like baking a cake and put it on your window frame to cool it down when you live on the ground floor next to a busy street: it won't take long before it will feed somebody else than you expected.
Only that digital media is different because you still have the original file, not so with the original cake :P.
Anyway, artists owners of digital works (if only of a digital representation on a website of an oil painting for example), anywhere in cyberspace should only post excerpts of their works (or small rez version of their images) and encourage people really interested in their work to contact them.
Then there are proven ways to protect any file (image, song, movie, etc.).
The following solution apprears to be not so simple at first, but when you have set it up it should be fast and easy to use.
The IDDN (InterDeposit Digital Number) system's been around for almost 15 years now and seems related to the WIPO*.
Quote: "InterDeposit, an international federation for data-processing and information technologies, set up in Geneva on 10 January 1994, is made up of the various organisations concerned by the protection of intellectual property rights over digital works." Find it here.
Further you can read: "2. Detection of the unlawful use or exploitation of works - settlement of disputes
Thanks to automatic search systems and the intervention of its authorised agents, the APP ensures that infringement reports are drawn up to provide material proof of any offence. This judicial evidence allows conventional court proceedings to be initiated if the infringers refuse the on-line WIPO* arbitration that is normally chosen for the settlement of disputes, in accordance with the IDDN Charter whose enforcement is accepted by cybernauts when they consult an IDDN referenced work."
It's here.
*=Based in Geneva Switzerland, the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organisation) is a specialized agency of the United Nations.
Then there is still steganography. This is entirely handled by the right owner. The user conceals inside the file (image, song, etc.) another file that is asymetrically crypted (using PGP or GPG) that represents the signature. The key to unlock the concealed file is the proof of ownership.
I don't know if this latter solution is enforceable is a court of law or whether it remains in the file after processing it: e.g. convert/crop/resize, etc. the image or convert an MP3 file to WMA for example.
Somebody more into cryptography/steganography will probably be of more help, I just try to point to existing solutions.
Searching Wikipedia for those terms will give you much further insight: PGP, GPG, cryptography and steganography.
Jelpy
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