A Study on Copyright Protection Method of Web Image Contents

Technical treatments of image contents on the web include the copy protection method such as the image capture protection technology and the traitor tracing method to detect unauthorized duplications through watermarking insertion or feature information technology. However, these two methods have their own weaknesses. The image capture protection method is unable to protect illegal captures when the URLs of image sources are exposed. The traitor tracing method is fundamentally unable to protect illegal captures due to its post-treatment method. Besides, the weakness of using the copyright information display technology involves easy removal of copyright information from copyrighted contents. This paper suggests a model of the web image contents protection system which makes it hard to separate copyright information from web image contents and allows image contents to be shown only in the authorized websites.