> Are any projects considering or using encryption /and/or watermarking?
>
> Does encryption have a future if some countries consider it illegal (France,
> USA)?
Bill Tuck's supporting study on copyright management technology has some
material on watermarking and steganography. It will be published shortly.
The USA doesn't regard encryption as illegal, but export of useful
encryption technology is illegal. There is certainly a great future for
encryption, nevertheless!
Whether encryption is a useful technology for electronic documents is
another matter. I suspect it depends greatly on the economic value of the
documents. I suspect if Disney movies, pop sound recordings, or the
latest best seller novel become available on the Internet, they may well
be encrypted. I can't see why anyone would bother for articles in most
scholarly journals.
As Mike Lesk has pointed out, though, one exception might be text books.
They are a case where the audience is
a) smart
b) congenitally biased against authority
c) poor
d) aware of 20+ others nearby in a similar predicament.
A difficult market!
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Chris Rusbridge
Programme Director, Electronic Libraries Programme
The Library, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
Phone 01203 524979 Fax 01203 524981
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