[WEB4LIB] commercial watermarking products

[Keawe Vredenburg]

Aloha, Sheila.  I'm sorry I have nothing to add to your information
list.  We are also interested in watermarking and are presently "hiding"
everything behind a firewall until we figure out a way of protecting it.
We would like to open up but feel we cannot afford to unless we're
protected. I would be very interested in any replies you get.
Mahalo,
Keawe

Sheila McAlister wrote:

> I've searched through the list archives for previous postings on
> digital watermarking of images, but didn't find any posts which
> specifically addressed an archive/library's experience using a
> commercial product such as DigiMarc, PixelTag, etc. and what led them
> to choose said product. (I've also checked out  articles by Peter
> Cassidy, Doug Isenberg and Richard Wiggins available through
> webreference.com)
>
> I'd appreciate any input you may have on this topic, but some of the
> questions which I have include:
>
> 1. What did you choose and why? Are you combining your approach with
> in-house methods also (e.g. low dpi, adding a caption to the image,
> etc.) and why or why not?
>
> 2. How large is your collection? Is it growing? Did the product
> you chose charge a flat fee or per image?
>
> 3. Have you started tracking duplication without permission? Have you
> found a high-number of illegal copies?
>
> 4. Some products block downloading of images such as SafeImage
> (still in the design stages). Was this a feature you wanted?
>
> 5. Some products such as DigiMarc only display the watermark
> information in "proprietary" software (i.e. PhotoShop, etc.), and do
> not display the watermark when printing. Did you consider this
> problematic?
>
> Basically any information you have time or the inclination to share
> with me would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you for your expertise and time
>
> Sheila McAlister
> Electronic Access Coordinator
> Richard B. Russell Library
> University of Georgia Libraries
> mcalists at libris.libs.uga.edu

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