Customer''s Right Protocol For Multimedia Data
Lintian Qiao, Klara Nahrstedt · 1997
Various digital watermarking techniques have been proposed in recent years as the methods to protect the copyright of multimedia data. However, because the purpose of watermark is mainly for protecting the original owner''s rights, the rights of the legitimate customers have not been addressed. This could eventually defeat the goal of using watermark to resolve the rightful ownership. In this paper, we will explain by examples why the customer''s right is important and discuss various approaches to solve this problem. We will design and reasoning protocols which can provide the equal right protection for both originals and customers.