Intellectual Property Protection for Multimedia Information Technology

Since previously published intellectual property law and business research discusses institutional analyses without interdisciplinary insights by technical experts, and technical references tend to concern engineering solutions without considering the social impact of institutional protection of multimedia digital information, there is a growing demand for a resource that bridges the gap between multimedia intellectual property protection law and technology. Intellectual Property Protection for Multimedia Information Technology provides scholars, management professionals, researchers, and lawyers in the field of multimedia information technology and its institutional practice with thorough coverage of the full range of issues surrounding multimedia intellectual property protection and its proper solutions from institutional, technical, and legal perspectives.

Hideyasu Sasaki, a graduate of the University of Tokyo in 1994, received an LL.M., from the University of Chicago Law School in 1999, an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Cybernetic Knowledge Engineering (Media and Governance) with honors from Keio University in 2001, 2003, respectively. He is an associate professor at Department of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University. He was an assistant professor at Keio University from 2003 to 2005. His research interests include content-based metadata indexing and image retrieval, digital libraries, multimedia databases, and intellectual property law and management. He has been admitted to practice as an Attorney-and-Counselor at Law in the New York State Bar, since 2000. He is active as an international program committee member at the International Society on Law and Technology (LawTech), the International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL) and Euro-Japan Conference on Information Modeling and Knowledge Bases (EJC), respectively.