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> My end goal is to insert content into an audio file to identify me as<br>
> the creator and identify which parts of the Creative Commons license<br>> apply to its release. What term should I use to name that?<br><br>
Paranoia?<br>
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Creative Commons is about letting your children leave home and find a<br>
life of their own - they are still your children but you accept that they have<br>gone feral. If you cannot handle that then don't release in the public domain.<br><br>Nick.<br><br>"we have to make sure the old choice [Windows] doesn't disappear”.<br>Jim Wong, president of IT products, Acer<br><br><br><div>> To: nickycopeland@hotmail.com<br>> Subject: Re: [LAU] Looking for Audio Watermarking Advice & Tools <br>> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:32:18 -0700<br>> From: kevinc@cosgroves.us<br>> <br>> <br>> On 23 October 2011 at 22:10, Nick Copeland <nickycopeland@hotmail.com> wrote:<br>> <br>> > > Have you ever signed a file with GNUPG? That's a watermark.<br>> > > Have you ever used an SHA or MD5 signature of a file, and<br>> > > verified those signatures with GNUPG?<br>> ><br>> > What is the relationship?<br>> ><br>> > These are not watermarks. The above are methods to prove or<br>> > disprove that any given person was the source of a given<br>> > message.<br>> <br>> That's precisely the intent of what I want to do with an audio file <br>> watermark, to prove that at least at one point I was the source of <br>> the file.<br>> <br>> > A watermark is a means of marking a resource such that it may<br>> > not be used by anybody else without degradation of quality.<br>> <br>> We have in mind different definitions of "watermark". Certainly, I <br>> could be wrong in my terminology.<br>> <br>> This definition http://www.thefreedictionary.com/watermark doesn't help.<br>> <br>> This definition http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/digital_watermark.html<br>> leans more in the direction of what you're saying in the 3rd sentence<br>> of the first paragraph. But, the first sentence of that paragraph is<br>> much like what I would want. I'm only after the identification of the<br>> material, not the restriction of the material. If I wanted <br>> restriction, then I would have asked for advise on how to do that <br>> instead.<br>> <br>> My end goal is to insert content into an audio file to identify me as<br>> the creator and identify which parts of the Creative Commons license<br>> apply to its release. What term should I use to name that?<br>> <br>> Thanks....<br>> <br>> --<br>> Kevin<br>> <br>> <br></div> </div></body>
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