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The information published in this guide corresponds to face-to-face classes and can serve as a guide. Due to the health emergency caused by COVID-19 there may be changes in teaching, assessment and calendars for the academic year. These changes will be reported in the Moodle space of each subject. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE SUBJECT:: In this subject, the theoretical classes will be mixed scheduled lectures; that is to say, some of the students will attend in person in the classroom and others will simultaneously follow the class by video conference. As far as practical classes are concerned, some of the laboratory sessions will be done online.
Multimedia Security deals with the protection of copyright and other related rights in the digital era.
The course begins describing and characterizing multimedia contents, the related industry, and the associated threats, i.e. the problem of copyright protection in the Information Society. Then, we introduce the legal framework supporting Intellectual Property rights, Industrial Property rights, Copyright, and, as a related issue, Software Licenses.
After the rights of the authors of multimedia content have been described, we will introduce Digital Rights Management tools, which are a collection of information security tools to manage the access rights to multimedia content. DRM tools can be categorized in two broad categories: copy protection tools and copy detection tools.
- Copy protection tools include technologies that do not allow accessing to content or applications to unauthorized users. Authorized users are those who have purchased a legitimate copy of the product (or the access to the product). As a special case, we will explore protection tools specific to software and videogames.
- Copy detection tools comprise the technologies that allow content distributors to identify illegally distributed content (multimedia fingerprinting) and to know who the legitimate owner of the content is (watermarking). |
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