There is an advantage of registering a copyright pertaining to the ability to recover statutory damages and attorney's fees through a successful action. In the event of a dispute over property rights, however, attaching a registration document does not automatically trigger your winning the case. Registering your work does not mean that you have proven authorship or ownership of that work. By doing so, you are only officially announcing your intention to publicly confirm that the work belongs to you. More or less, that is all you can achieve. You must take additional steps to fully protect your copyright work, patent, or trademark.

The first step is to collect all the images, audio, video and text files that testify to the various stages of the progression of your work and submit them when registering with an authorized copyright agency, in litigation, and in legal disputes. Be sure to save the files that illustrate the workflow. Without these files, you will not be able to prove your ownership of the copyrighted work. The next step is to encrypt the set of collected files and digitally sign your work, or add a digital barcode to your work, depending on what you intend to do.

Digitally encrypt all the files that make up your collection of evidence with an encryption key that only you, the author of the work, or your legal representative can decipher. Although digitally encrypted, these files should not be exposed publicly. In the absence of a cryptographic digital key, evidence of your work's progression may fall into the hands of those who are likely to misuse it.

Your authorized work must be digitally signed in order to verify the authenticity of the work and the digital identity of the owner of the work. Alternatively, you can insert a digital barcode into your work and create an authentic digital asset, or "ADA" for short. A digital barcode is a container that includes all the necessary information about a file that represents an authentic digital asset, such as the author's name, file name, and file description. Compared to a digital signature, a digital barcode contains a significantly larger amount of data. Whether we sign something digitally, or insert a digital barcode, depends on how we end up using our digital work. Digital signing, by definition, can only be applied to the original version of a file. No subsequent changes may be made to the file, as the attached digital signature will become unusable. The same goes for the digital barcode. This greatly limits their practical use and requires the introduction of an additional level of protection, which is adding a digital watermark to your work.

To make your authorized work available for distribution across all digital platforms, PDF books and music stores, audio and video streaming services, stock photo sites and online marketplaces, you are advised to digitally seal the final product you wish to protect by inserting an invisible digital watermark. It is used alongside a digital signature and a digital barcode and is considered an additional level of protection for a digital product. Digital Chip Card Technology, or DCCT for short, is an innovative technology that allows us to insert an adaptive, invisible and inaudible digital watermark into our digital assets. The embedded watermark does not compromise the quality of the original file in any way.

Digital watermarking algorithms involve adding a controlled amount of AWGN (additive white Gaussian noise) coupled with mathematically generated patterns to the digital work. Data protection is based on real-time calculations in both the frequency and spatial domains. If the watermark can be extracted from the file and clearly recognized, the quality of the file is confirmed to have been preserved. On the other hand, failure to extract and recognize the watermark means that the quality of the file has been significantly degraded.

Unlike a digital signature and digital barcode, a digital watermark cannot be removed from your work regardless of changes to the file. This is a feature that paves the way for digital watermark insertion tools to bring universality to the process of verifying and authenticating an authorized digital work and round off the establishment of full copyright and intellectual property protection.

We do not register works with copyright agencies, as there are many other professionals specializing in this field. We carry out high-tech preparation and processing of files and documentation that you must submit when applying for copyright registration. To learn more about how to establish full copyright and intellectual property protection, visit this page. To gain insight into innovative solutions for copyright and intellectual property protection, visit this page. To digitally sign a document, visit this page. To insert a digital barcode into an authentic digital asset ("ADA"), visit this page. To add a digital watermark to your work, visit this page. If you have any other questions, suggestions, or remarks, feel free to contact us anytime.