Message-Id: <mailto:199506140450.VAA35984@listserv.ccit.arizona.edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 00:36:31 -0400
From: "mailto:Walter_Gilbert@UMAIL.UMD.EDU--Maryland" <WALT@UMDD.BITNET>
Subject: Re: Watermark software
To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 13 Jun 1995 15:10:24 -0500 from
<mailto:BRUN@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU>
On Tue, 13 Jun 1995 15:10:24 -0500 Tanya Brun said:
>I wonder if anyone can help us with the problem: we want our images on CD
>be vewable and readable (in case it is text) but without the possibility
> to print them.
>Does the Watermark make it possible, or something else exists, or
Watermark doesn't do it! Nothing technological does it! If it's on
the screen, it can be captured and reproduced on shower curtains and
coffee mugs to the thief's heart's content.
>maybe not. Our concern is not about reproduction of the page for
>publication, what we want is a person can see it on the screen but can't
>print even for personal usage.
Pardon a perhaps crude analogy: It's against the law to reproduce
copyrighted materials without permission and its against the law to
mug people. The solution to both may be to employ some burly bodyguards
to physically protect your materials (or your physical being). Or to
only allow your materials to be used under controlled conditions (hand
over your first-born as collateral while in possession of the discs
and permit their use only on computers with no network access or
floppy disk drives).
Bottom line: copyright and locks only keep the honest people out;
there is absolutely nothing you can do about the "criminal".
Walt
Walter Gilbert, Asst. Dir. mailto:Walter_Gilbert@umail.umd.edu
Computer Science Center Manager: Teaching Technologies
University of Maryland at College Park 20742-2411 (301)405-6727