Re: [WM]: Proof of ownership

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

Nicholas,
Thank you for the information you have supplied.
We conducted a workshop on Watermarking in Sydney under the auspices of the IEEE
Communications and Signal processing Chapter where we had Prof Safavi-Naini and
Andrew Tirkle along with P.Beadle and Philip Ogunbuna from Motorola presenting.
It was well attended - and there is a lot of interest in this area in Australia.
Our intention is to now include the legal eagles and the law enforcement people
across Australia to actual experience the technology and expand their awareness.

I must apologise for not doing this earlier - but I am going to try.

Nicholas Sheppard wrote:

> On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Ollencio D'Souza wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> No, the cases that are on my web site are the only cases I am aware of
> that have even fairly tenuous connections to proof-of-ownership
> watermarking. Nor am I aware of any serious research into the legal
> standing of watermarks. I've seen the occasional reference to digital
> watermarking in "cyberlaw" treatises but noting its existence seems to be
> about the extent of their interest.
>
> There are Internet sites that allow searches of case law databases; the
> Australasian Legal Information Institute has a country-by-country list of
> links to courts and case law at
>
>         http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/2172.html
>
> I did a quick search for "digital watermark" on Australian, UK, Canadian,
> Irish and US case law databases and found nothing.
>
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