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Peer to Peer Networks are oftenly used by internet users to share and distribute digital content (images, audio and video) which is in most of cases protected by the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) legislation. This fact threatens e-inclusion and Internet democracy as a whole as it forces organizations to block access to valuable content. This paper claims that IPR protection and P2P can be complementary. Specifically, a P2P infrastructure is presented which allows broad digital content exchange while on the same time supports data and copyright protection through watermarking technologies.
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Stylios, G., Tsolis, D. (2010). Intellectual Property Rights Protection in Peer to Peer Networks. In: Sideridis, A.B., Patrikakis, C.Z. (eds) Next Generation Society. Technological and Legal Issues. e-Democracy 2009. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 26. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11631-5_16
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