Method and system for assessing copyright fees based on the content being copied
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorGene Golovchinsky
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Abstract
Described system makes it possible to charge copy fees related to the amount of copyrighted material being copied and to provide those fees to the appropriate copyright holder. The scanned information is passed through an OCR filter that produces a stream of text, which is then passed to a full-text search service that identifies matching passages in its index. Sufficiently long passages found in the copied document that match previously indexed documents held by the service constitute copyrighted materials. In addition, the scanned image may be processed to identify instances of copyrighted images present in the scan.
Claims29
A system for assessing copyright fees based on the content being copied, comprising:
- a scanning module operable to scan a document comprising at least one page;
- a content identifying module operable to identify a content on each scanned page of the document and comprising an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine operable to extract a stream of text from each scanned page of the document;
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- a copyright holder identifying module operable to identify a copyright holder of the identified content.
A method for assessing copyright fees based on the content being copied, comprising:
- a. scanning a document comprising at least one page;
- b. identifying a content on each scanned page of the document by performing an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to extract a stream of text from each scanned page of the document;
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- c. identifying a copyright holder of the identified content.
A computer programming product embodied on a computer readable medium for assessing copyright fees based on the content being copied, comprising:
- a. Code for scanning a document comprising at least one page;
- b. Code for identifying a content on each scanned page of the document by performing an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to extract a stream of text from each scanned page of the document;
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- c. Code for identifying a copyright holder of the identified content.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.