Digital Watermarking
| CyberGuards uses PictureMarc from Digimarc which allows you to embed and read digital
watermarks in your image. These watermarks allow you to embed information which
communicates your copyrights and authorship. The watermarks are imperceptible, apparent to
the computer, but not to the viewer of an image, providing a persistent identity which
travels with the image wherever it goes. A Digimarc watermark carries a unique Creator Id, and image attributes. A Creator Id is assigned to you through CyberGuards. You provide a complete set of contact details, including your name, phone number, address, e-mail and web addresses, and specialty. You can also choose which information you wish to allow the viewer to see. This is uniquely associated with your creator id. A Digimarc watermark is actually a small random pattern added to the luminance component of the pixels in your image. At high magnification, you might notice seemingly random changes in brightness of a pixel. This change is not enough to harm the visual integrity of your image, but carries information which survives normal edits and even printing and scanning. Whenever someone opens or scans a watermarked image into Picture Publisher, it is automatically checked for a watermark. If one is present, a copyright symbol is added to the title bar, communicating to the viewer that someone has embedded information in the image. From there, the viewer can read the watermark, where they discover your creator id. By clicking the Web Lookup button in the read dialog, or calling Digimarc's fax-back service, the viewer has direct access to your contact details. Digimarc watermarks do not prevent someone from using your images or infringing on your copyright. But they do communicate that you are claiming your copyrights, and provide a mechanism for interested parties to contact you about the image or one like it. CyberGuards encourages website owners to allow for their images to be shared throughout the web providing the website who uses that copyrighted image links back to your website inside that image. This encourages others to come to your site and view your original offerings and services, and increases website traffic. The Digimarc is a way to guarantee that the image used is indeed noted as your own. To find out more about Digimarc and PictureMarc, go to
www.digimarc.com.
CyberStalking | Intellectual Property | Digital Watermarking | Copyright Infringment | Internet Fraud
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