The Digital Watermarking Alliance is a group of like-minded companies that share a common interest in furthering the adoption of
digital watermarking
A digital watermark is a kind of marker covertly embedded in a noise-tolerant signal such as audio, video or image data.H.T. Sencar, M. Ramkumar and A.N. Akansu: ''Data Hiding Fundamentals and Applications: Content Security in Digital Multimedia'' ...
. The mission of the Digital Watermarking Alliance is:
* "''to create awareness and promote the value of digital watermarking to content owners, industry, policy makers, and consumers.''"
Founding members
The Digital Watermarking Alliance is made up of 12 companies that all have an established presence in the
digital watermarking
A digital watermark is a kind of marker covertly embedded in a noise-tolerant signal such as audio, video or image data.H.T. Sencar, M. Ramkumar and A.N. Akansu: ''Data Hiding Fundamentals and Applications: Content Security in Digital Multimedia'' ...
technology and solutions market. Member companies include:
* Cinea
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Digimarc
* GCS Research
* Jura
* MediaGrid
* Media Science International (MSI)
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Philips
Koninklijke Philips N.V. (), simply branded Philips, is a Dutch multinational health technology company that was founded in Eindhoven in 1891. Since 1997, its world headquarters have been situated in Amsterdam, though the Benelux headquarter ...
* Signum
* Teletrax
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Thomson SA
Vantiva SA (formerly Technicolor SA, Thomson SARL, Thomson SA, and Thomson Multimedia) is a French multinational corporation that provides technology products and services for the communication, media and entertainment industries. Headquarter ...
* Cinavia
as Verance* Verimatrix, Inc.
Current members
As of January 2018, the Digital Watermarking Alliance have 6 companies as its members.
* ContentArmor
* Irdeto
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MarkAny
* Media Science International (MSI)
* NexGuard
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Verimatrix
See also
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Digital watermarking
A digital watermark is a kind of marker covertly embedded in a noise-tolerant signal such as audio, video or image data.H.T. Sencar, M. Ramkumar and A.N. Akansu: ''Data Hiding Fundamentals and Applications: Content Security in Digital Multimedia'' ...
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Watermark
A watermark is an identifying image or pattern in paper that appears as various shades of lightness/darkness when viewed by transmitted light (or when viewed by reflected light, atop a dark background), caused by thickness or density variations i ...
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Watermark detection
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Watermark (data file)
A watermark stored in a data file refers to a method for ensuring data integrity which combines aspects of data hashing and digital watermarking. Both are useful for tamper detection, though each has its own advantages and disadvantages.
Data ...
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Copy attack
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Copy protection
Copy protection, also known as content protection, copy prevention and copy restriction, is any measure to enforce copyright by preventing the reproduction of software, films, music, and other media.
Copy protection is most commonly found on vid ...
References
External links
* {{official website, https://digitalwatermarkingalliance.org//
Digital watermarking
Computer graphics organizations