Method for Detecting Copyright Infringement

By admin on December 4th, 2011

How to Detect Copyright Infringement

Introduction:

With all of the latest talk about SOPA and how many believe that it’s going to be the end of the internet as we know it, I was surprised to read that Google apparently doesn’t know how to detect copyright infringement.  I won’t say that it was easy coming up with the solution that I invented, but I will say that it seems that if Google wanted to figure out how to, say, transmute lead to gold then all they would have to do is put their minds to it.

The Method for Detecting Copyright Infringement:

The Control:

I view the detection of copyright infringement as a scientific test.  With this in mind, we set a reference, or control, and then every subsequent test results with a comparison to the control/reference.  The National Photographer Group has developed a system for detecting copyright infringement and has implemented a method to allow users to voluntarily create a reference for us to test against.  In other words, we authenticate their camera using our proprietary media authentication system and we register their camera with their account.

The Test:

Web applications can register to use our API and simply send an unmodified image or capture, complete with metadata, to our servers.  We perform an in-depth analysis on the media to attempt to determine who the media belongs to and then return a result as XML or JSON–user configurable.

The NPG Media Authentication System:

The NPG Media Authentication System can be implemented both remotely and locally depending on the demand the organization requires.  We offer affordable licensing of our technology, please contact customerservice@thenpg.com for an evaluation of your copyright infringement detection needs.

Recommendations:

• Do not allow users to upload media that does not contain metadata
• Promote the use of licensing standards, such as PLUS, to clearly define who is allowed to do what with the media
• Do not allow users to download content if they do not explicitly have permission to do so as spelled out in the PLUS license