Measures to prevent unauthorized use of images of collected items in art museums and museums using digital watermarks

Background/issues

For over 20 years, Waseda System Development has been selling IBMUSEUM SaaS, a collection management system for art galleries and museums, as a cloud service.
As the times change, the needs of Waseda System Development's customers also change little by little. The number of customers who wanted to publish their work was increasing.
On the other hand, some of our customers expressed concerns about the unauthorized use of published images, and we felt that we needed to take measures a step further than just warnings.

Introduction Results

"acuagraphy PictureMark (our product)" is now included as a standard feature of "IBMUSEUM SaaS". When publishing images of collection items on the Internet, "acuagraphy PictureMark" is used in the process of automatically embedding digital watermarks in the images.
As a result, "IBMUSEUM SaaS" customers can use the copyright information embedded in images as the basis for copying, cutting, editing, etc. of images, which previously could not be handled with just text warnings. Now you can claim your rights. In addition, by posting on Internet pages that copyright information is embedded in images using ``acuagraphy PictureMark'', we are also effective in preventing unauthorized use of images.

Copyright protection solution - acuagraphy series | Digital watermark

Print security solution - acuaprint | Background pattern printing