<p>Integrating cryptography with watermarking technologies can provide intellectual property rights protection in an open network environment such as the Internet.</p>

Alessandro Piva, Franco Bartolini, Mauro Barni, "Managing Copyright in Open Networks", IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 6, no. , pp. 18-26, May/June 2002, doi:10.1109/MIC.2002.1003126