Anonymous Authorship Control for User-Generated Content
Suk-Bong LEE, Sang-Gyoo SIM, Yeo-Jin KIM, Yun-Sang OH, Kyung-Im JUNG, Bong-Nam NOH
User-Generated Content (UGC) is opening up new large market
in content services, and more and more people are visiting web
sites to share and enjoy UGCs. These trends make many authors
to move into online. Authors want to conserve their authorship
and expect to publish their UGC anonymously in cases. To meet
the requirements, we propose a new authorship control model
based on watermarking and metadata. Authors can embed their
authorship into their UGC with identities or with anonym. Even
though an author publishes his UGC anonymously, he can
prove his authorship without unveiling his identity via 5
methods utilizing the proposed authorship model. The proposed
model and methods need no TTP and are robust even based on
fragile underlying watermarking scheme. Full Text
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