Patent ID: 8650128

Claim:
A method of regulating distribution of digital watermarked content, the method comprising: decoding, using a processor, a digital watermark in the digital watermarked content, wherein the digital watermark comprises at least one component related to copy usage and at least one component related to content identification; obtaining the copy usage component and the content identification component from the decoded digital watermark; monitoring content subsets within the digital watermarked content using the digital watermark, wherein each content subset comprises a unique digital watermark identifying the content subset; prohibiting the distribution of the digital watermarked content according to the copy usage component; communicating the content identification component to a database, wherein the database uses the content identification to identify billing information related to distribution of the content; receiving a permission to distribute the content from the database; determining whether to prohibit distribution of the digital watermarked content based at least in part on the permission instead of on the copy usage component; and creating a bookmark to a content subset using the unique digital watermark identifying the content subset.