Anti-Collusion Digital Fingerprinting Codes via Partially Cover-Free Families

Anti-collusion digital fingerprinting codes have been of significant current interest in the context of deterring unauthorized use of multimedia content by a coalition of users. In this article, partially cover-free families of sets are considered and these are employed to obtain such codes. Compared to the existing methods of construction, our methods ensure gains in terms of accommodating more users and/or reducing the number of basis vectors.