Then there's the ability of CSS to charge only when clients come calling at the replication plant: it allows them to verify each instance of CP with a license request. I think it's also about 'deniability' and compensation: if a production company tried to sue a 'violator' and the defense asked them about what protections they placed on the title(s), and the company said, 'Nothing', an argument could be laid that the company was 'asking to be copied' because they didn't attempt to do 'due diligence' to the fullest extent possible. Also most replication services have paid for their own CSS license and charge a small fee per disc to add CSS so that customers don't need their own licanse. If the DVD is authored as an ISO file, the CSS flag can be written to the ISO file. I found out that the information above is incomplete and out of date. Do you plan to use DLT tape for mastering and have access to a DLT tape drive? Plus the license to use CSS DVD copy protection is not cheap. However it can only be written to a DLT tape. In terms of the CSS protection, I just want to be able to flag it for replication? DVD Lab Pro 2 and other real professional software can turn on the CSS flag. The types of copy protection used for video DVDs (CSS, APS/CopyGuard, ARccOS (and other types of bad sector copy protection)) can only be applied during replication. If by 'copyright protection' you mean you want authoring software that applies copy protection, you won't find any.

If your work is original, it can be copyrighted. Most DVD authoring software supports menu creation.

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