Re: [WM]: Proof of ownership

[Ollencio D'Souza <odsouza@ozemail.com.au>]

Nichaolas,

Have you or anyone in the watermarking community found any legal precedents or
cases where watermarking or "protection" of video / images / audio of any sort has
been successfully tested in a court of law?

I would really like to know where "end to end" INTEGRITY of a process was also
challenged or looked a and if there was any importance given to the process,
conversions within the process and or format in which the information was
delivered.  (example if an image was a JPEG, lossy, compressed and was delivered
as a BMP at the end, albeit watermarked, what would be the interpretations of
reconstructed image which was larger and had content actually created to complete
the process)

Regards
Olly D'Souza

Nicholas Sheppard wrote:

> I'm interested in looking at real-world examples of ownership disputes of
> the type that are proposed to be solved by watermarking.
>
> The disputes need not involve digital objects; any dispute over ownership
> would be fine, though obviously digital disputes would be a bonus in the
> context of watermarking research. Any disputes that actually involve
> watermarking would be an even bigger bonus.
>
> I already have several (non-digital) cases I found by searching Australian
> case law. Using court cases may bias the examples towards particularly
> difficult disputes since if the dispute reached court, routine protection
> mechanisms such as copyright registration (and watermarking) presumably
> failed. So, before I start digging through the cases of every jurisdiction
> in the world, I was wondering if anyone knows of any newspaper articles,
> etc., describing such disputes whether or not they ended up in court.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions offered.
>
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