Irish Internet Copyright Order Signed Into Law

An Irish ministerial order that allows copyright holders to seek legal injunctions against some Internet service providers was signed into law last week. The law allows plaintiffs seek legal injunctions against Internet service providers that allow access to websites that contain copyrighted material.

The Irish Minister for Research and Innovation, Sean Sherlock, said upon signing the amendment, “I believe that in Ireland we must build on our very substantial achievements in the creative and digital media industry, and become a model of international best practice for innovation in the area.”

Online copyright concerns

The law comes after concern over Internet copyright boomed in 2011. With online media a major growth point, music industry and entertainment industry officials have been pushing for more stringent controls over the use of media online.

The move has encountered a lot of opposition, however, and has been dubbed the “Irish Sopa” in reference to the US Stop Online Piracy act, which was defeated after a robust campaign from major websites and activists. Those who were opposed to the “Irish Sopa” say that it’s a bad move because it doesn’t solve the legal problem of uncertainty that this law is suggested to solve.

Minister Sherlock went on to say that “Ireland is home to some of the world’s most innovative Internet companies, and we are determined to grow our reputation as a location where smart people and smart companies can innovate in this fast-moving area”.

An answer to the Internet copyright issue

There is a large amount of concern over Internet copyright law. Particularly for those who post content online like blogs, articles, white papers and video, there is not much by way of protection or comeback when these kinds of content are stolen, reproduced or plagiarized. Government policy remains murky.

There is now an answer to the online copyright question for organizations. Companies can take advantage of Digiprove’s Autoprotect technology to create a unique digital fingerprint & timestamp and legitimize online content in order to prove its origins, without the need to upload the content (It remains confidential to the owner/author).

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Embed Trust, Compliance & Protection in Software & Data

Introduction

Your software whether COTS or Bespoke brings to your client’s or your own organisation the benefits of automation and the flexibility of digital processes & content, these benefits are indirect when you consider the primary drivers are likely to be Improve Financial Performance, Customer or Citizen Service, or carry out tasks that would not be practical to carry out manually.

Software Applications or Information systems are central to the creation and flow of Information in every aspect of business life today, they support every function in the organisation and decision making at every level from the front line or shop floor up to the board room and for external parties.

Your business/organisation is providing these software products and IT solutions to your client’s/end user’s and they are central to their business processes, legal and regulatory compliance. So why is there so much emphasis on printing and signed paper records? The answer is “Trust”. Digital data & content can be easily manipulated accidentally or maliciously even with what would be perceived as good IT security. A professional malicious hacker can circumnavigate most standard security and the use of elaborate security solutions can be very costly and make usability an issue.

How do you bring trust to the digital content your application creates, handles or uses, in a simple cost effective manner? If your software ticks all the boxes below, then you have a compelling proposition, if you don’t tick all the boxes then don’t worry by doing a quick free integration of Digiprove technology or alternatively installing Autoprotect from Digiprove you can secure the trust of any user or 3^rd party in the information your solution provides:

þ Provenance of any digital content can be established (Origin)

þ Digital content can be verified as it is used or at any time on and off line (Tamper evidence)

þ Tamperproof & Auditable logs of content history (Life cycle events)

þ Content does not leave its operating environment (Remains Confidential)

þ Meets Legal and evidential requirements for eDiscovery, Spoilation identification and preservation.

þ Meets business and regulatory requirements for digital signatures, digital records, and Integrity.

þ Creates unique digital fingerprint and certification for any type of digital content.

What Value will the integration of Digiprove into our solution bring?

·         It enables your software solution stand out from the competition by ticking all the boxes above.

·         It enables trust and confidence for all stakeholders in the digital content integrity, its provenance is assured and any tampering identified.

·         It secures the evidential value of digital content for business decisions and for any 3^rd party investigation (which may include eDiscovery)

·         It will enable compliance with 3^rd Party requirements, such as regulators, government & auditors.

·         It will allow you operate without any paper in your process

·         It will differentiate your software solution.

How does Digiprove achieve this? And what is Digiprove’s evidence?

Digiprove is a unique patented technology process that without the need to transmit your digital content to Digiprove, creates a unique digital fingerprint of your digital file(s), it securely registers the fingerprint with the metadata such as owner, Date, Time, Location and creates an audit trail so that should the digital content be altered in anyway it will be evident on verification. Verification can be completed on or off line or can be fully automated using a component from the Digiprove Software Developers Kit.

Our evidence is that we already have over 5000 users and specifically using our SDK it has been integrated into software/solutions with applications in compliance such as Financial Services, Human Resource Management, Financial and legal. In addition The Georgia Technology Institute, the world’s leading authority on Digital Security has tested and verified Digiprove’s technology and here is what they say:

“… the process described in the patent does indeed provide a tamper-proof way to show that digital data has not changed since its timestamp. The process also provides a provision to validate any alteration made after it has been time stamped… the software does faithfully implement the patented 'Digiprove' process providing an authenticated method for establishing proof of existence and possession of digital content of any kind.”

Protect Digital content before Facebook, UTube and Flickr upload

Are your uploads and blogs important to you ?

Whether you are a frequent or occasional publisher of digital content to the Web , have you considered the consequences of unauthorised use of your content ? The answer we most frequently hear is either “ I never thought of that” or “How do I do that”.

Digital content whether it be text, images, photos, audio files or video files are extremely easy to copy, modify and re-use and therefore are open to abuse. The abuse can be malicious or inadvertent and cause reputational damage and/or financial loss.  Alternatively the published content may  just be personally important to you, your organisation, your family ,friends, members, customers, suppliers and colleagues.

So if you use Social Media such as Facebook, UTube, Flickr, and LinkedIn or publish to Websites, Blogs and Forums, you should consider protecting your content. You want to know if it has been accessed and interfered with and/or re used/republished.

Regardless of security systems, abuse still occurs with published and unpublished digital content. In the event your digital content has been misused you want to have evidence firstly that you own the content and also evidence that it has been tampered with. Ultimately whether it was erroneous or malicious that your important content was used you will require this evidence to persuade the party at fault to take action and correct the issue or you may need that evidence in the worst case to seek legal redress for reputational or financial damages.

Digiprove provides an effective solution to protecting your digital content before you publish

Digiprove provides the evidence to prove you own it, prove you sent it, and prove it has been tampered with in a secure and confidential manner. Digiproves patented “Proof Engine” technology is designed to create the provenance, authenticity & integrity of any type of Digital content without the need to send your content to us, so it always remains confidential to you. A unique digital fingerprint of your digital content is created, it is certified and logged as non repudiable proof of its existence and ownership at a point in time (and location on portable devises with GPS). Your content can be validated on-line or off-line at any time to confirm it provenance and integrity.

You only pay for what you need to protect through simple on-line value for money  subscriptions. But before you buy why don’t you try our free trail you will immediately gain confidence that this simple to use system protects your important digital content. You can use our Selfprotect on-line self-service to protect content and email communications, Autoprotect to automate the whole process as a background task in a matter of minutes or Webprotect if you are a user of Wordpress.

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