Re: How to protect yourself against copyright violation

On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Michael Tuohy <mt2337[_at_]cnsvax.albany.edu> wrote:
>
> on selected topics pertaining to Internet. The specific topic I have
> been assigned is: "How to protect yourself against copyright violation"
> under the general heading of Copyright and Intellectual Property.

IBM's cryptolope products are the most well known of genus of tools which seek to protect against a copyright violation ("rights management") by encrypting the "content" thereby limiting access to those authorized. You can read their white paper at: http://www.cryptolope.ibm.com/white.htm

A different paradigm is to have a computer search for infringing copies. The Stanford Copy Analysis Mechanism (SCAM) is a good example of this method. It is part of a larger initiative on digital libraries in which Stanford is active. See:
http://www-db.stanford.edu/~shiva/SCAM/scamInfo.html

There is real scholarship at the SCAM site (the IBM page is more marketing) and the scholarly publications are appropriately cited.

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