Assessment of Copyright Protection Using Watermarking and Cryptography for Online Text Information

Information and security are elements which are dependent on one another. Information security has now evolved to be a matter of global importance, requiring a variety of tools, policies and assurance of technologies against any relevant security risks to achieve its significance. Countless writers are rapidly attracted towards internet influx which provides a flexible means of sharing the online information economically. Text being an important constituent of online information sharing, creates a huge demand of intellectual copyright protection of text and web itself. A variety of visible watermarking techniques are being studied for text documents but few for web- based text in the present paper. The objective of the present study is to emphasize the significance of watermarking and cryptography techniques to protect the online text information which is vulnerable to a variety of threats.