[LAU] Looking for Audio Watermarking Advice & Tools OFFLIST

[Nick Copeland]

> My end goal is to insert content into an audio file to identify me as

> the creator and identify which parts of the Creative Commons license
> apply to its release.  What term should I use to name that?


Paranoia?



Creative Commons is about letting your children leave home and find a

life of their own - they are still your children but you accept that they have
gone feral. If you cannot handle that then don't release in the public domain.

Nick.

"we have to make sure the old choice [Windows] doesn't disappear”.
Jim Wong, president of IT products, Acer


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