Document Copyright Management via Selective Element Editing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current image processing systems fail to efficiently manage and output documents containing copyrighted elements, leading to potential copyright infringement and cumbersome coordination with rights holders for content creators and consumers.
Innovation Solution
An image processing apparatus that acquires documents, extracts elements requiring copyright processing, presents use conditions, receives user designations of wanted and unwanted elements, calculates and collects fees, and edits unwanted elements to comply with copyright conditions before outputting the document.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a document including copyrighted elements is output as it is, then output efficiency is maintained, but copyright infringement occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary extraction of copyrighted elements and determination of their use conditions before the output process. By identifying and flagging copyrighted elements in advance, the system prepares the necessary copyright information and fees beforehand, allowing the document to be output efficiently without interruptions during the actual output process.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary copyright management mechanism that mediates between the document output process and copyright protection requirements. This intermediary layer extracts copyrighted elements, determines their use conditions, calculates fees, and manages the output process, thereby resolving the contradiction between maintaining output efficiency and ensuring copyright compliance.
2Reliability
If manual coordination with rights holders is performed for each copyrighted element, then copyright compliance is ensured, but processing time and effort increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service copyright management by automatically extracting copyrighted elements, determining their use conditions, calculating fees, and managing the entire copyright processing workflow. This eliminates the need for manual coordination with rights holders, as the system handles all copyright-related tasks autonomously, thereby ensuring compliance while minimizing processing time.
Solution Approach 2:
The system merges multiple copyright processing tasks (extraction, identification, use condition determination, fee calculation, and output management) into a single integrated automated workflow. By combining these previously separate manual processes into one unified system, the total processing time is significantly reduced while maintaining comprehensive copyright compliance.
3Loss of information
If all copyrighted elements are included in the output document, then document completeness is maintained, but copyright fees increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by allowing different portions of the document to have different copyright statuses. Users can selectively include or exclude specific copyrighted elements based on their needs and budget, rather than being forced to include all copyrighted elements or pay for all of them. This enables partial inclusion of copyrighted material while maintaining document completeness for non-copyrighted portions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables partial action by allowing users to include only the necessary copyrighted elements in their output document rather than all copyrighted elements. Users can selectively choose which copyrighted elements to include based on their specific needs, thereby reducing the total copyright fees while maintaining the essential completeness of the document.
Data Source
AI summary
An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition section that acquires a document, a first extraction section that extracts elements that need processing regarding copyrights from elements constituting the acquired document, a second extraction section that extracts use conditions of the extracted elements, a first presenting unit that presents at least part of the extracted use conditions, a receiving section that receives designation of wanted and unwanted elements among the extracted elements, a second presenting section that presents a total fee obtained by adding fees indicated by use conditions of the wanted elements to a fee for outputting the document, and an output section that, in response to payment of the total fee, outputs the edited document. In the edited document, the unwanted elements have been edited to comply with the use conditions.