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AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorsAndreas Girgensohn, Lynn Donelle Wilcox, III, Scott Carter, Kishore Papineni
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Rights holders such as copyright owners want to keep track of copying of printed materials owned by them. That information can be used to check if the person copying has a license. Alternatively, the information can be used for billing. In some countries, an intermediary such as a copyright agency may facilitate the tracking of such copying and the compensation of the rights holders. This system automates the process by monitoring copiers, matching copied images to materials owned by rights holders, and recording such copying actions including the identifier of the copier, the copying person, the number of copies, and the matched materials. Alternatively, the system may prevent the copying if there is no permission by the rights holders.
A computer-implemented method for tracking copying of a printed material owned by a rights holder, the computer-implemented method being performed in connection with a computerized system comprising a central processing unit and a memory, the computer-implemented method comprising:
A computerized system for tracking copying of a printed material owned by a rights holder, the computerized system comprising a central processing unit and a memory storing a set of computer-executable instructions for:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying a set of computer-executable instructions, which, when executed in a computerized system comprising a central processing unit and a memory, cause the computerized system to perform a method for tracking copying of a printed material owned by a rights holder, the method comprising:
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