If you have images (a.k.a. visual assets) for sale, or use images to re p resent merchandise for sale or to p romote your brand or drive traffic to your pro d u c t s and services, then using the Internet as your storef ront or display window is inevitable. Never has t h e re been a marriage made in heaven like the Web and image-driven e-commerce.

It has never before been possible, for example, for the big stock photo houses to reach beyond a limited audience of graphics professionals because the cost of producing and distributing those high-class pictu re catalogs, even once a year, is prohibitive . And the audience is even more limited for small shops and individual artists who can’t aff o rd to produce and distribute anything like those expensive catalogs. They’ve never been able to reach beyond the few hundred people who review their portfolios.

PART 1: Introduction
1.1 About the Author 
1.2 Introduction 
1.3 Copyright  
PART 2: The Security Infrastructure 
2.1 Overview 
2.2 Solutions / Vendors
2.3 Observations 
PART 3: Protecting Intellectual Property
3.1 Analog Video Copy Protection  
Overview
Solutions/Vendors
Observations
3.2 Digital Video Copy Protection  
Overview
Solutions/Vendors
Observations
3.3 CD-ROM Copy Protection 
Overview
Solutions/Vendors
Observations
3.4 Digital Document Copy Protection 
Overview
Solutions/Vendors
Observations
3.5 Digital Audio Copy Protection
Overview
Solutions/Vendors
Observations
PART 4: Protecting Visual Assets 
4.1 Low Quality 
Overview
Solutions/Vendors
4.2 Notification
Overview
Solutions/Vendors
4.3 Captioning
Overview
Solutions/Vendors
4.4 Scarring
Overview
Solutions/Vendors
Observations
4.5 Java Applets 
Overview
Solutions/Vendors
4.6 Fingerprinting 
Overview
Solutions/Vendors
4.7 And now for something completely different
Solutions/Vendors
PART 5: Encryption 
5.1 Overview 
5.2 Solutions / Vendors
5.2.3 Clever Content (Alchemedia)
Background
Products/Services
Conversation with Alchemedia
5.2.2 Clever Content Customer — Aerial Images
Background
Conversation with Aerial Images
5.2.3 Vyoufirst (Vyou.com)
Background
Products/Services
Conversation with Vyou.com
5.3 Observations 
PART 6: Watermarking 
6.1 Overview
6.2 Solutions / Vendors
6.2.1 Other Vendors
6.2.2 Signum Technologies, Ltd.
Background
Products/Services
6.2.3 Digimarc
Background
Products/Services
Conversation with Digimarc
6.2.4 Digimarc Customer — Corbis
Background
Conversation with Corbis
6.3 Observations
PART 7: Outlook
PART 8: Appendix 
8.1 List of Vendors & Contacts

Table of Illustrations
11: example of low quality
12: example of notification
13: example of scarring, captioning, & watermarking 
14: example of captioning 
15: example of scarring 
16: a Thing  
17: Alchemedia home page
18: Clever Content dialog 
19: attempted screen shot of Alchemedia home page
10: TerraServer home page 
11: unprotected USGS image 
12: protected SPIN-2 image
13: Vyou.com home page 
14: original digital photo .
15: enhanced watermark “noise” 
16: watermarked photo
17: Sigum Technologies logos
18: full-frame BBC Wild image (no watermark) 
19: zoomed BBC Wild image (with watermark)
20: Signum registry entry for BBC Wild image
21: Digimarc home page 
22: Corbis Web page
23: ReadMarc dialog for Corbis image
24: Digimarc registry entry for Corbis 
25: enhanced watermark
26: encrypted image