Re: [WM]: [WM] Protecting from screen capture

["Jeffrey Bloom" <jbloom@sarnoff.com>]

At 06:48 PM 12/8/2004 +0800, Babu, Mandava wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>Can some one give me pointers to find the relevant documents or technology 
>which talks about protecting the illegal copying of
>cinema. Is it possible to watermark traditional cinema screening ?
>
>The real problem is: When the movie is being screened in cinema, few ppl 
>just walkin with a digital v. camera and shot the whole
>movie. The immediate next day you can see the pirated VCD's are available 
>in the market. Is some one know of any watermarking
>technology that can protect the film ?
>
>regards

# J. A. Bloom and C. Polyzois, "Watermarking to Track Motion Picture 
Theft", Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Asilomar Conference on Signals, 
Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove CA, 2004.

# J. A. Bloom, "Security and Rights Management in Digital Cinema", 
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 
ICME'03, Baltimore, July 2003.

# J. Lubin, J. A. Bloom, and H. Cheng, "Robust, Content-Dependent, 
High-Fidelity Watermark for Tracking in Digital Cinema", Security and 
Watermarking of Multimedia Contents V, Ping Wah Wong, Edward J. Delp, 
Editors, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 5020, 2003.

# J. A. Bloom and M. L. Miller, "Informed Detection Revisited," Proceedings 
of the 2004 International Workshop on Digital Watermarking, Seoul Korea, 2004.

Plus a bunch of recent press, e.g., 
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20041203/ap_en_bu/anti_piracy_technology

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