Intellectual Property Rights Protection in Peer to Peer Networks

Georgios Stylios; Dimitrios Tsolis

Next Generation Society. Technological and Legal Issues. Third International Conference, e-Democracy 2009, Athens, Greece, September 23-25, 2009, Revised Selected Papers

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Intellectual Property Rights Protection in Peer to Peer Networks

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-11631-5_16,
    author={Georgios Stylios and Dimitrios Tsolis},
    title={Intellectual Property Rights Protection in Peer to Peer Networks},
    proceedings={Next Generation Society. Technological and Legal Issues. Third International Conference, e-Democracy 2009, Athens, Greece, September 23-25, 2009, Revised Selected Papers},
    proceedings_a={E-DEMOCRACY},
    year={2012},
    month={5},
    keywords={Computer networks copyright protection peer to peer networks digital image processing watermarking},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-642-11631-5_16}
}

Georgios Stylios
Dimitrios Tsolis
Year: 2012
Intellectual Property Rights Protection in Peer to Peer Networks
E-DEMOCRACY
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11631-5_16

Georgios Stylios¹^,*, Dimitrios Tsolis²^,*

1: TEI of Ionion
2: University of Patras

*Contact email: stylios@teiion.gr, dtsolis@upatras.gr

Abstract

Peer to Peer Networks are oftenly used by internet users to share and distribute digital content (images, audio and video) which is in most of cases protected by the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) legislation. This fact threatens e-inclusion and Internet democracy as a whole as it forces organizations to block access to valuable content. This paper claims that IPR protection and P2P can be complementary. Specifically, a P2P infrastructure is presented which allows broad digital content exchange while on the same time supports data and copyright protection through watermarking technologies.

Keywords: Computer networks copyright protection peer to peer networks digital image processing watermarking

Published: 2012-05-25

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11631-5_16