Managing Rights Management

Managing Rights Management Among Top Technology Blogs

Although it's clever marketing for their site, I am nevertheless pleased to have received an 8.3 rating from the editors of Blogged.com. Here is a lightly edited version of their email: Dear Bob Weber, Our editors recently reviewed your blog and have given it an 8.3 score out of (10)... Read more →

Boeing and Digimarc Watermarking Patents Issued

On Tuesdays the USPTO issues new patents. Both of today's Spotlight patents entail the use of watermarking. Assigned to Boeing, the first patent concerns a dynamic wavelet feature-based watermark. Assigned to Digimarc, the second patent concerns digital watermarking with content dependent keys and autocorrelation properties for synchronization On 7,366,909, "Dynamic... Read more →

Watermarking Patent Applications

Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Both of today's Spotlight applications concern media watermarking. The first discloses techniques for watermarking media data, no assignee given. The second discloses techniques for watermarking motion pictures, apparently assigned to Thompson. 20080098022, "Methods For Watermarking Media Data," no assignee given. Abstract Methods are... Read more →

Copyright Protection and Recorded Content Distirbution Patents

{Haven't been blogging much because of the press of client work including travel. Will be on lighter publishing schedule until mid-May when things may calm down a bit.} On Tuesdays the USPTO publishes newly issued patents. Both of today's Spotlight patents address various aspects of copyright identification and protection. Assigned... Read more →

Barcode Ticket Security - DRM Not

Masabi's Ben Whitaker wrote a most interesting article on Barcode security. Even those readers who don't usually care about such things should have a look; lots of interesting ideas there. Whitaker addresses security and DRM: Anti-copying using DRM (Digital Rights Management) However you deliver a barcode, it has to be... Read more →

FTC on DRM-Disclose, Label It, OR Else

Ars Technica reports on a recent Federal Trade Commission report issued nearly 18 months after the conference that spawned it. Regarding DRM, the report says in part: As new, proprietary technologies are introduced, consumers will be faced with noninteroperable products. Despite consumers’ general preference for interoperability, which provides the greatest... Read more →

Watermarking and Fingerprinting Patent Applications

Thursdays the USPTO publishes new patent applications. Today's Spotlight applications address various aspects of watermarking and fingerprinting. Assigned to Nippon Telephone and Telegraph, the first application discloses a digital watermark padding method, digital watermark padding device, digital watermark detecting method, digital watermark detecting device, and program. The second application discloses... Read more →

Adobe DRM and LG Electornic Book Patents

Today's Spotlight issued patents concern various aspects of digital rights management. Assigned to Adobe, the first patent concerns nestable skeleton decryption keys for digital rights management. Assigned to LG Electronics, the second patent concerns techniques for providing digital electronic books. 7,359,517, "Nestable skeleton decryption keys for digital rights management," assigned... Read more →

Joe Winograd (Verance) on Public Assessments Of Watermark Survivability

Back in February I wondered about public tests of watermarking survivability besides the well-known SDMI related tests. Joe Winograd, CTO of watermarking company Verance, emailed the following information: There have been 5 competitive, independent audio watermark technology evaluations held to date -- a list is provided at the bottom of... Read more →

Nate Lawson on Designing and Breaking DRM

Nate Lawson is a co-creator of the BD+ security layer on Blu-ray. He gave a talk at the recent RSA conference.that covers techniques for attacking DRM. His slides are posted here and are worth reviewing. Lawson writes: Of course, people in glass houses should not throw rocks. As someone who... Read more →