Re: [WM]: Watermarking/Fingerprinting effectively used in court ?

[Nicholas Sheppard <nps@uow.edu.au>]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Julien Lafaye wrote:

> I am looking for examples where watermarking and/or fingerprinting was 
> used effectively in court to prove copyright infringements.

There was some discussion on this list concerning the above some years ago -- have a look at the list archives around May 2001 and
July 2003.

Digimarc claims that its watermarking proudcts have been used to achieve numerous out-of-court settlements: see, for example,

    http://www.digimarc.com/media/release.asp?newsID=229

There are a few cases in which cartographers have inserted fake streets, rivers, etc. into their maps and used these to prove
copyright
infringements: a British case of Ordnance Survey vs. British Automobile Association was settled out of court and reported in the
Times on 6 March 2001; and an Australian case Universal Press vs. Superguide was settled in the Federal Court as well as reported in
the Sydney Morning Herald on 7-8 July 2001.

I hope this helps.

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Nicholas Sheppard     School of Computer Science and Software Engineering
nps@uow.edu.au        The University of Wollongong, Australia
Ph: +61 2 4221 3375   http://www.uow.edu.au/~nps




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