Holy QPRNF...

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/980504/ca_live_pi_1.html

Summary:  Digimarc and Live Picture, Inc., team up to offer watermarking
	  services.  

|| ``Until very recently, the creative community was extremely skeptical of 
|| licensing and marketing their work over the Web, which they viewed as an 
|| absolute free-for-all,'' said Doug Dawirs, director of online services at 
|| The Workbook. ``Now these same people and companies are jumping in with 
|| both feet.''

I hope no content creators mistakenly think that this is electronic
content protection (possibly, one can say an aid to detect _unintentional_
illicit use, but not intentional theft), or else there will be a 
free-for-all of a legal kind a little further down the road.

I also wonder about the proposed batch processing option, embedding
the same watermark into multiple images.  I can see a number of
security problems here, especially if Live Picture can not (likely)
keep track of all the images marked by them.

						=Xcott

> http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/980504/ca_live_pi_1.html
> Summary:  Digimarc and Live Picture, Inc., team up to offer watermarking
> 	  services.  
> || ``Until very recently, the creative community was extremely skeptical of 
> || licensing and marketing their work over the Web, which they viewed as an 
> || absolute free-for-all,'' said Doug Dawirs, director of online services at 
> || The Workbook. ``Now these same people and companies are jumping in with 
> || both feet.''
> I hope no content creators mistakenly think that this is electronic
> content protection (possibly, one can say an aid to detect _unintentional_
> illicit use, but not intentional theft), or else there will be a 
> free-for-all of a legal kind a little further down the road.

	I work for a company who displays much of their work on the 
Web, and we are often sited by Digimarc as a "customer". 

	We (AFAICT) stoped bothering with their product (probably an older
version) simply because it didn't work. 

	I can take any image where the watermark IS NOT visible, and 
make it so that your scanning software doesn't work, yet most people wouldn't
notice a bloody thing. 

	Suckerware.