Copyright Protection of Digital Images of Cultural Heritage

2017 ◽  
pp. 451-482
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Copyright Protection ◽  
Digital Images

An Advanced Watermarking Application for the Copyright Protection and Management of Digital Images of Cultural Heritage Case Study

2009 ◽  
pp. 263-279
Author(s):  
Georgios Stilios ◽  
Dimitrios K. Tsolis
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Copyright Protection ◽  
Digital Images ◽  
Copyright Infringement ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Protection Of Cultural Heritage

The issue addressed in this chapter is the design, implementation, and evaluation of a watermarking application, especially focused on the protection of cultural heritage. The application described here is focusing on protecting digital surrogates of high-quality photographs of artifacts, monuments and sites, and on countering copyright infringement of online digital images. This is achieved by the integration of an innovative watermarking method to a specialized and usable user–interface. The system is specifically applied to “Ulysses,” the Official Cultural Portal of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture (HMC). The chapter is structured in 7 main sections where an overview of the issue is presented, the watermarking method is analyzed, and the user-interface is described in detail. Finally, an evaluation of the overall watermarking application is presented and specific on-site implementation issues are analyzed.

Representation and Display of Digital Images of Cultural Heritage: A Semantic Enrichment Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-247
Author(s):  
Xu Tan ◽  
Xiaoxi Luo ◽  
Xiaoguang Wang ◽  
Hongyu Wang ◽  
Xilong Hou
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Digital Images ◽  
Semantic Network ◽  
Semantic Representation ◽  
Semantic Annotation ◽  
Visual Display ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Entity Recognition ◽  
Semantic Enrichment ◽  
Fine Grained

Digital images of cultural heritage (CH) contain rich semantic information. However, today’s semantic representations of CH images fail to fully reveal the content entities and context within these vital surrogates. This paper draws on the fields of image research and digital humanities to propose a systematic methodology and a technical route for semantic enrichment of CH digital images. This new methodology systematically applies a series of procedures including: semantic annotation, entity-based enrichment, establishing internal relations, event-centric enrichment, defining hierarchy relations between properties text annotation, and finally, named entity recognition in order to ultimately provide fine-grained contextual semantic content disclosure. The feasibility and advantages of the proposed semantic enrichment methods for semantic representation are demonstrated via a visual display platform for digital images of CH built to represent the Wutai Mountain Map, a typical Dunhuang mural. This study proves that semantic enrichment offers a promising new model for exposing content at a fine-grained level, and establishing a rich semantic network centered on the content of digital images of CH.

Two Spatial Watermarking Techniques for Digital Images

2013 ◽  
pp. 691-712
Author(s):  
Dumitru Dan Burdescu ◽  
Liana Stanescu ◽  
Marian Cristian Mihaescu
Keyword(s):  
Digital Watermarking ◽  
Copyright Protection ◽  
Digital Images ◽  
Multimedia Data ◽  
Effective Measure ◽  
Digital Multimedia ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Robust Watermark ◽  
Multimedia Technologies ◽  
New Algorithms

The rapid growth of digital multimedia technologies brings tremendous attention to the field of digital authentication. Digital watermarking has become widely recognized as an effective measure for copyright protection of multimedia data. The owner or the distributor of the digital images can insert a unique watermark into copies for different customers or receivers, which will be helpful to identify the source of illegal copies. In this chapter the authors present two original spatial authentication techniques for digital images. These new algorithms yield an invisible watermark that is robust to various kinds of attacks. The main principle is the utilization of a virtual (2D or 3D) graph embedded into the digital images. Then, the colors of some vertices of the virtual graph are slightly modified for obtaining the watermark. The proposed techniques modify pixels or voxels of the object by a spatial watermark insertion scheme. These techniques can be used for all kinds of digital images, color or black and white, and the new algorithms produce an invisible robust watermark. The techniques lower the computational complexity that normally rises with the traditional watermarking algorithms. This approach reduces computation and implementation complexity of the algorithms. These techniques seem to replace advantages of the transform domain techniques with those of the spatial domain techniques.

scholarly journals On Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage in China from the Intellectual Property Rights Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing Lin ◽  
Zheng Lian
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Copyright Protection ◽  
Patent Protection ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
The Third ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
Protection Mode ◽  
Ipr Protection

With the development of globalization, intangible cultural heritage (ICH) has come under increasing threat, making the safeguarding of ICH a crucial task for the governments and peoples of the world. This paper examines China’s current state of intellectual property (IPR) protection for ICH and proposes that ICH be placed under China’s legislative protection as intellectual property. Due to the immense diversity and complexity of ICH and the difficulty in reconciling various interests involved, the existing IPR protection mode faces many obstacles in practice. We present two case studies and three sets of recommendations on improving the protection of ICH in China. The first set relies on improving copyright protection for ICH, the second set relies on improving trademark and geographical protection for ICH, and the third set relies on improving patent protection for ICH.

scholarly journals Designing a Prototype of Digital Museum to Promote Woven Songket, A Local Product of Sumatera, Indonesia

2014 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bertalya Bertalya ◽  
Prihandoko Prihandoko ◽  
Rakhma Oktavina ◽  
Danu Satria Ramadhan
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Digital Images ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Digital Museum ◽  
Local Product ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Analysis Design

One of Indonesia's cultural heritage is woven songket. Songket is not just a piece of cloth but with a diversity of functions and motifs contained profound philosophy about human life. Hence, the songket fabric must be preserved so as not to disappear due to the influx of modern cloth products from outside.This study aims to create a digital museum that displays digital images of woven songket and provide information relating to the various motifs representing the cultural distinctiveness of local centers in  Sumatra. In addition, a digital gallery is developed to display a wide range of products derived from the local creative industries of songket cloth. The methods used for data collection are observation and interview. The development of digital museum consists of the process of formulation, planning, analysis, design, manufacture and testing of web pages, as well as evaluation.

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