A survey on watermarking web contents for protecting copyright

Due to growing era of internet and the ease of using it, the copyright protection and authentication of contents has become very important issue. For the same purpose digital watermarking has been used over a long time. This article gives a brief idea about the analysis of different watermarking techniques used for web pages. Both the HTML and XML techniques have been discussed along with their merits and demerits. A new robust technique can be used that will generate the watermark by using a strong technique based on semantic and syntactic rules and will secure the watermark by a strong cryptographic method along with the use of SALT & will make it invisible. The role of CA will determine the authorized author/user of the web content in case of dispute as the created watermark will be registered to CA in a secure fashion. And also this technique can be applied on any web language like HTML, and also for the web services like XML, JASON etc.