The author is the Vice President of the Security and Content Protection Labs at Technicolor (previously known as Thomson), and his main research topics are DRM for professional applications, audio and video watermarking, video fingerprinting, secure distribution of multimedia content, and copy protection. The author has more than 20 years of research experience, he has filed more than 80 patents in the field, and he is involved with the main related academic conferences as an organizer and contributor.
"""The book is well written and timely, as content owners are struggling to protect their content and prevent loss of revenue. Much of the book is written in a manner suitable for novices to information security and content protection. The book will be useful for information security practitioners, researchers, faculty, students, and end users. Based on his rich research experience – he holds many patents in the field of digital content security – the author is well qualified to write this book. ... I strongly recommend this book for its intended audience."" [S.V. Nagaraj, ACM Computing Reviews, 2013]"