Thursday, April 15, 1999
4:15 PM (refreshments 4:00)
Room NE43-518
EECS Special Seminar
Abstract
Currently, any small time cyber-pirate can make copies of music CDs and books available on the web in digital format to a large audience at virtually no cost. Content publishers such as Disney and Sony Records are therefore expected to lose several billions of dollars over the next few years in copyright revenues. To address this problem, we propose building a copy detection system (CDS), where content publishers will register their valuable digital content. The CDS then crawls the web, compares the web content to the registered content and notifies the content owners of illegal copies. In my talk, I will discuss how to build such a system so it is accurate, scalable (e.g., to hundreds of gigabytes of data, or millions of web pages) and resilient to "attacks" (e.g., partial audio clips) from cyber-pirates. I will also discuss two prototype CDS I have built as "proofs of concept": (1) SCAM (Stanford Copy Analysis Mechanism), for finding textual copies on the web, and (2) FRAUD (Finding Replicas of AUDio) for finding audio copies on the web.
HOSTS: Professor T. Lozano-Perez and Professor D. Karger
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