Copyright Protection
 In the age of Web 2.0, online distribution of multimedia content has become commonplace. With an average 13 hours of video uploaded every minute onto the Web it is not surprising that video sharing sites such as YouTube refuse to enforce privacy and copyright regulations. The onus of discovering copyright infringements is thus passed on to the owners and content creators. As the amount of video distributed online increases exponentially, the laborious process of human personnel manually sifting through video files is failing to maintain control of intellectual property. An automatic solution for the policing of content is therefore essential.
Video and audio files can be traced and protected using Watermarks whereby information is embedded into the digital signal. This can be a visible mark, such as the logo of the broadcaster, or invisible, where the information is added as a digital signature but cannot be perceived by the naked eye. Watermarks differ from metadata in as much as they are embedded into the video signal itself; if the signal is copied, then the watermark information is also copied within the data. When distributing protected content or searching for content that breaches copyright, Watermarks serve as powerful identity cards to quickly establish the validity of the file. However, Watermarks can be easily removed or corrupted, leaving content open to online piracy and illegal distribution. Autonomy Virage’s technology provides a powerful solution to this problem. Its software is able to automatically “watch and listen” to video and audio files and compare them to known files. This allows content to be monitored for copyright infringement and protected without having to apply watermarks. Features such as facial recognition, logo recognition, music analysis, and scene detection can all be used to compare files and establish if their distribution breaches copyright. Autonomy Virage also allows video and audio files to be compared based on how closely related the themes discussed are, offering controllers a live landscape view of all content available. By proactively automating the process involved in monitoring third-party websites for illegal distribution of copyrighted content, Autonomy Virage can stop a video from being distributed if its contents are sensitive or potentially dangerous to the company, or if distributing it undermines the company’s internal policy. Autonomy’s Automatic Copyright Infringement Detection (ACID) is a revolutionary, unique solution that enables copyright owners such as broadcasters, production houses and publishers to maintain control of their intellectual property, allowing them to detect the illegal distribution of copyrighted material on the Internet automatically. Furthermore, ACID gives content hosts the power to protect their sites from potentially catastrophic legal disputes by removing risky content before it is posted. ACID is a complete solution to the problems of copyright infringement detection, and facilitates:
- Monitoring the exploding amount of digital media distributed on the Internet
- Effectively tackling the growing issue of online piracy to secure licensing and advertising revenue
- Dramatically reducing the potential legal risks of allowing users to upload dubious content on public websites
- Cost reduction on copyright infringement detection through automation
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