Information processing apparatus enabling electronic watermarking, and communication network connectable to such information processing apparatus
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1. An information processing apparatus comprising:
- discrimination means for discriminating a process, in which an electronic watermark is to be applied to data that is to be registered, from among a plurality of different processes that are executed for the data to be registered; and
registration means for registering a plurality of purposes of use for the same data and registering a plurality of processes for executing the purposes of use, as a timing of applying the electronic watermark for each of the registered purposes of use, so that the electronic watermark is applied to the data to be registered during the process discriminated by said discrimination means based on the registration.
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Abstract
In order to protect the copyright of data in accordance with the intent of a copyright holder, an arbitrary timing can be set for the application of an electronic watermark to data. For example, a data registration timing, a data communication timing or a data output timing can be arbitrarily selected.
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1. An information processing apparatus comprising:
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discrimination means for discriminating a process, in which an electronic watermark is to be applied to data that is to be registered, from among a plurality of different processes that are executed for the data to be registered; and registration means for registering a plurality of purposes of use for the same data and registering a plurality of processes for executing the purposes of use, as a timing of applying the electronic watermark for each of the registered purposes of use, so that the electronic watermark is applied to the data to be registered during the process discriminated by said discrimination means based on the registration. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. An information processing system that executes a plurality of different processes for data to be provided by a user, comprising:
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discrimination means for discriminating a process, in which an electronic watermark is to be applied to data that is to be registered, from among the plurality of different processes; registration means for registering a plurality of purposes of use for the same data and registering a plurality of processes for executing the purposes of use, as a timing of applying the electronic watermark for each of the registered purposes of use; and applying means for applying an electronic watermark to the data provided by a user during the process discriminated by said discrimination means based on the registration by said registration means.
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16. A control method for an information processing apparatus comprising:
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a discrimination step of discriminating a process, in which an electronic watermark is to be applied to data that is to be registered, from among a plurality of different processes that are executed for the data to be registered; and a registration step of registering a plurality of purposes of use for the same data and registering a plurality of processes for executing the purposes of use, as a timing of applying the electronic watermark for each of the registered purposes of use, so that the electronic watermark is applied to the data to be registered during the process discriminated in said discrimination step based on the registration.
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17. A control method for a system that executes a plurality of different processes for data to be provided by a user, comprising:
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a discrimination step of discriminating a process, in which an electronic watermark is to be applied to data that is to be registered, from among the plurality of different processes; a registration step of registering a plurality of purposes of use for the same data and registering a plurality of processes for executing the purposes of use, as a timing of applying the electronic watermark for each of the registered purposes of use; and an applying step of applying an electronic watermark to the data provided by a user during the process discriminated by said discrimination step based on the registration in said registration step.
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