Protecting intellectual property rights and the JPEG2000 coding standard

Abstract

The ever-increasing use of the Internet and file sharing applications based on Peer to Peer networks has alarmed content authors, providers and resellers of digital content. Techniques proposed for protecting digital media include watermarking, use of metadata and self-protection and self-authentication. In this paper we review the most important of these methods and analyse their potential use in Digital Rights Management systems. The main focus is on IPR management through watermarking for digital images coded with the new and a lot promising compression standard: JPEG2000. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.