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I have a customer wanting to run my CL course from Kallidus LMS. I have no means of uploading this myself and I am concerned that I have no control over my product once I release the published zip file. Has anyone experience of this and can advise me of a solution to temper my paranoia?
 
There isn't a great deal that you can do about this David, once the content is available on-line any of it can easily be taken and used. So feel free to notch up the paranoia.
The real question is what cann you do about it?
Well you can't really stop anyone capturing the text component, typically that isn't a huge issue. A verbatim copy of a specific text section could be compared side by side and seen to be the same. Unless this is has a quite technical content it will be difficult to prove original authorship.
You also can't stop anyone capturing and using any text images BUT it is possible to apply a hidden text message within an image and with some software check if any such marked images are being used on-line elsewhere using digital watermarking or steganography.
# Here is one commercial application ( https://dfi.digimarc.com/selectProduct.aspx?family=pro )that lets you apply a digital watermark giving you a few option from just invisibly marking an image through to having the parent companies search engines trolling the internets images and finding where your image is in use.
# And here is a free application ( http://www.outguess.org/ )that will let you hide text within an image. This can be used to prove you 'own' an image that you find being used elsewhere.
 
 
Thanks Nick, I'm beginning to feel a bit better. I'll check the digital watermarks out. I thought the whole point of SCORM compliance was to enable training resources running on 'foreign' LMS. I see my competitors promoting the facility to upload to customers own LMS, so the threat of content being ripped of must be common place


15.06.2013 20:04 James Nick wrote:
There isn't a great deal that you can do about this David, once the content is available on-line any of it can easily be taken and used. So feel free to notch up the paranoia.The real question is what cann you do about it?Well you can't really stop anyone capturing the text component, typically that isn't a huge issue. A verbatim copy of a specific text section could be compared side by side and seen to be the same. Unless this is has a quite technical content it will be difficult to prove original authorship.You also can't stop anyone capturing and using any text images BUT it is possible to apply a hidden text message within an image and with some software check if any such marked images are being used on-line elsewhere using digital watermarking or steganography.# Here is one commercial application ( https://dfi.digimarc.com/selectProduct.aspx?family=pro )that lets you apply a digital watermark giving you a few option from just invisibly marking an image through to having the parent companies search engines trolling the internets images and finding where your image is in use.# And here is a free application ( http://www.outguess.org/ )that will let you hide text within an image. This can be used to prove you 'own' an image that you find being used elsewhere.

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