The Use of Peer-to-Peer Networks in Copyright Protection

Author

Tsolis, Dimitrios ; Georgatos, Eleftherios ; Sioutas, Spyros

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng. & Inf., Univ. of Patras, Patras, Greece

fYear

2009

fDate

10-12 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

97

Lastpage

101

Abstract

As a general and effective protection measure for copyright violations which occur with the use of digital technologies including peer to peer (P2P) networks, copyright owners often use digital watermarking techniques so as to encrypt copyright information to the content or otherwise restrict or even block access to the digital content through the Internet and the P2P infrastructure. This paper claims that DRM and P2P can be quite complementary. Specifically, a P2P infrastructure is presented which allows broad digital content exchange while on the same time supports copyright protection and management through watermarking technologies for digital images.

Keywords

digital rights management; image processing; peer-to-peer computing; watermarking; copyright protection; copyright violations; digital content exchange; digital image processing; digital rights management; digital watermarking techniques; peer-to-peer networks; Computer network management; Computer networks; Content management; Copyright protection; Cryptography; Digital images; Informatics; Peer to peer computing; Technology management; Watermarking; Computer networks; copyright protection; digital image processing; peer to peer networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Informatics, 2009. PCI '09. 13th Panhellenic Conference on

Conference_Location

Corfu

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3788-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PCI.2009.48

Filename

5298870