Commercial and standard in robust multimedia watermaking

The ubiquity of the Internet, the ever increasing & surprising performances of the mundane home multimedia products, and the uniformity trend of the culture around the world turned the intellectual property protection into a key issue of the nowadays Information Society. By persistently associating some copyright information with the digital products, watermarking can provide a useful solution in this respect. While overlooking the related scientific and political aspects, the present paper reports on the main commercial and standardisation attempts in the watermarking field.