Copy protection for secured files
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsCesar Augusto Rodriguez Bravo, Kirk Krauss
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to copy protection. A request to copy a file from a requestor with one or more privileges sufficient to access the file may be received. The file may be determined to be subject to copy protection. In response to determining that the file is subject to copy protection, a notification of the copy attempt may be transmitted. Copy protection may then be applied to the file.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a processor, a request to copy a file from a requestor with one or more privileges sufficient to access the file;
- determining that the file is subject to copy protection;
- transmitting, in response to determining that the file is subject to copy protection, a notification of the copy attempt;
- and
- applying copy protection to the file.
A system comprising:
- a processor configured to perform a method comprising:
- receiving a request to copy a file from a requestor with one or more privileges sufficient to access the file;
- determining that the file is subject to copy protection;
- transmitting, in response to determining that the file is subject to copy protection, a notification of the copy attempt;
- and
- applying copy protection to the file.
A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method comprising:
- receiving a request to copy a file from a requestor with one or more privileges sufficient to access the file;
- determining that the file is subject to copy protection;
- transmitting, in response to determining that the file is subject to copy protection, a notification of the copy attempt;
- and
- applying copy protection to the file.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.