摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To maintain the reliability of an approval mark to be applied to a distributor who receives the approval of the use of a piece of music. <P>SOLUTION: A music distributor who receives the approval of the use of a piece of music from a copyright management group performs access to a management server 30 to download an approval mark. The approval mark is embedded with approved contents decided at approval as an electronic watermark, and the distributor carries the approval mark in a music distribution Web page. A general user is able to verify the approval mark carried by the distributor by a general terminal 10 integrated with a verifying program, and when a Web page carrying the approval mark is different from the Web page decided at approval, it is judged that the approval mark is duplicated or altered, and it is displayed that the approval mark is illegal. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO |