ES3039732A1 - Invention of digital and non-digital copyright protection - Google Patents

Abstract

Invention for the protection of digital and non-digital copyrights. The invention presented here is a system for inclusion using modern encryption systems that allows the origin of copied digital content to be traced back to the source that infringes copyright, and facilitates the prosecution of such infringements. The solution lies in the introduction of modern encryption keys unique to each authorized user into the digital content. This means that digital content is no longer the same for all authorized users in various ways. It should be remembered that many companies, clipping agencies, consulting firms, etc., illegally profit by distributing third-party digital content to multiple paying clients using these real-time copy-and-paste systems. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

DESCRIPTION

Invention of digital and non-digital copyright protection

Technology sector

Protection of copyright for digital and non-digital content.

Background of the invention

The state of the art in this field can be described for each section as follows:

Digital Content: Current systems rely on the use of usernames and passwords to access digital content. These usernames and passwords are stored in cookies that the server sends to the browser of the device attempting to access the service. These cookies, which may also contain the requester's IP address, are continuously compared with the IP address stored in the database of authorized users. This system acts as a filter to allow access to the content only to authorized users.

Disadvantages: These systems have certain vulnerabilities, such as the sharing of login credentials among multiple users who, through cookie renewal systems, can request access from different devices, bypassing access control and therefore the copyright of the content, which is granted to a single user. They also do not prevent content obtained by an authorized user from being copied and forwarded to multiple, or even thousands of, users without the content sender's control.

Printable, PDF or other formats, JPG image, etc. Content on these media has little protection against modern information transmission systems.

In all cases, modern information transmission systems, from the advent of the telegraph and then the more basic telephone, have allowed for the replication and transmission of information originally protected by copyright. To give a historical example, the telegraph across the English Channel enabled the rapid dissemination of strategic information during the Napoleonic Wars, diminishing the value of information published by editors. At that time, this was done in a rudimentary way, by copying and rewriting the content and analyses originally produced by well-intentioned editors who found their copyrights to be unprotected. Then came the Telex.

As information transmission systems were perfected with the arrival of facsimile players in the 20th century, copyright infringement increased.

The arrival of the fax machine provided a simple and instantaneous way to reproduce copyrighted content without limit.

The emergence of email allowed for an exponential increase in the number of potential recipients of copyrighted content, completely circumventing this protection.

Furthermore, this circumvention or evasion of copyright was done without leaving a trace, leaving the issuers defenseless against any attempt to pursue compliance with the Law that protects copyright.

The current situation is leading to a crisis for content providers and the failure of methods for collecting copyright royalties for content.

This crisis is evident in the press, with serious repercussions on the quality of content, investments, and the quality of information, which in turn affect the quality of the democratic system.

Explanation of the invention

The invention presented here is a system for including, using modern encryption systems, codes that allow tracing the origin of copied digital content back to the source infringing copyright, thus facilitating the prosecution of such infringements. Furthermore, it hinders the speed with which digital content can be illegally copied and distributed on a daily basis.

The solution lies in introducing modern encryption keys into digital content, unique to each authorized user.

These keys are based on cryptographic codes known as SHA-, from the SHA family, Secure Hash Algorithm, which in English means, “secure hash algorithm.

SHA-2 is a set of cryptographic hash functions (of which SHA-256 is one of the most widely used) developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and published in 2001 by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as a Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS).

The SHA-256 hash used in this invention is a 256-bit secure hash algorithm. Cryptographic hash algorithms generate hashes, which are irreversible and unique codes. The SHA-256 hash of any given text produces a string of 64 letters and digits (hexadecimal characters), unique to each text. This hash is irreversible; that is, knowing the SHA-256 hash does not reveal the original text.

This means that a unique SHA 256 hash can be issued for each authorized user of digital content.

This unique SHA-256 hash is embedded in digital content, enabling tracking and tracing of the origin of the content provided to a single user for their exclusive use, who may not distribute it without the express written authorization of the content's author. This SHA-256 hash makes simply copying the digital content difficult and allows for the tracking of illegal distribution.

The SHA 256 that is inserted in various ways is the SHA 256, of the set of characters, or text that define the authorized user, for example, in the form plus 95.

The basic SHA 256 of the user's email, or a combination of email, username plus password, defines the authorized user of a specific digital content; in fact, it allows for unique customization of the digital content for that specific user.

Unique personalization for each user of generic digital content can be done in several ways; the most basic shown here is the overprinting of the user's SHA 256 code, but the text can be personalized by introducing custom variations in it, based on a combination of paragraph spacing, words, characters, use of uppercase, lowercase and accents, which without altering the literal content but allow the tracking of the user authorized by the issuer of the content.

This means that digital content is no longer the same for all authorized users, and is automatically personalized for each authorized user in various ways.

The most basic one is the overprinting of the SHA 256 on the images of these digital contents that prevent the automatic copy and paste of them and their instant mass distribution.

They illegally profit by distributing third-party digital content to multiple clients for a fee, using these copy and paste systems in real time.

For example, a confidential daily newsletter on the state of the logistics markets, offered by a publisher for a subscription fee, is evaded by various users due to the illegal actions of the aforementioned entities that copy and resell the copyrighted information.

The SHA 256 algorithm was chosen because of its widespread cryptographic use; for example, it is used in Blockchain technology and Bitcoin.

Explanation of the drawings

Two images are shown, one with and one without SHA 256 codes entered.

Drawing 1 Unprotected digital content.

Drawing 2 Digital content protected with encrypted watermark.

Preferred embodiment of the invention

The invention inserts SHA 256 codes into digital content in various ways. The most basic method, and the one that serves as a deterrent, is the overprinting of SHA 256 codes as shown in Figure 2. This eliminates the possibility of rapid reproduction of the digital content without the possibility of tracking. This is unlike the image in Figure 1, which, by simply taking a screenshot or selecting the text using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) systems, allows the text of the digital content to be copied and forwarded without any control to multiple, sometimes hundreds or thousands, recipients, thus circumventing copyright.

The application has an obvious industrial application since, with the programming carried out, it can be replicated on as many digital content servers as desired, protecting the copyright of the content.

The programming introduced, which is very easy to implement using various established languages such as HTML, PHP, ASPX, etc., in most websites, protects and enables tracking by uniquely personalizing the digital content for each user.

Claims (3)

1. Protection for the invention of the system for unique personalization of digital content through the use of: 1. Using techniques for introducing unique visible SHA 256 codes into digital content. 2. Using techniques for introducing unique invisible SHA 256 codes into digital content. 3. Using techniques to vary the texts in digital content in a way that is unique to each authorized user. The combination is based on the use of encryption of the message recipient, that is, the email of the message recipient is encrypted using the SHA 256 algorithm, this gives a code, which is then inserted into the PDF with a watermark of the text protected under copyright. This watermark unequivocally and uniquely identifies the sent text, identifying the sender and preventing illegal discussions of the texts. As shown in the drawings provided below, it is clear how the watermark containing the blockchain that unequivocally identifies the recipient is inserted into the sent PDF. The text is thus protected against its potential multiple forwarding in violation of copyright laws, as it unequivocally identifies the owner of the text and allows it to be tracked across the network.