Every day, terabytes of all kinds of content are created around the world. In about 100% of cases, creators take risks, such as those of theft or use of their works without their consent. Most of the people who generate unique content face copyright infringement in some way.
Local YouTube bloggers, painters, photographers and famous movie directors all fight with it daily. And to some, it’s crucial because their art generates their only income. A film-making company can submit claims and sue an infringer, but what does a self-employed photographer (a painter, etc.) do? How do they prove it was them who created a work of art, and how can they protect it from piracy?
The ways that exist now:
Registering your rights with state authorities or private databases. This is not cheap and you will need to understand every nuance.
Creating a copy and having it stored in a depository. However, no one can be sure the company will exist in tens of years and be able to provide any proof of your authorship.
The current situation has been formed for a long while, and no perfect solution for protecting authors has been found so far. People simply can’t be sure their content won’t be used by someone else tomorrow, and proving the authorship of a digital product implies involving a third party which may be biased in a certain case.
Because of the rapid progress of digitization and the appearance of blockchain, this problem can finally be solved. In the new model, each creator can rest assured their works bring them not only recognition but also income.
Besides, the information in a blockchain is unchangeable, which means nobody can alter an authorship record.
Blockchain is an alternative way to confirm any rights of an author — it has the same legal power as state depositories, is the cheapest and doesn’t make one rely on a third party.
Already today, providers of such services appear in the market, and one of the pioneers in the field of “blockchain for copyright” is the Rasmart blockchain.
With help of the Rasmart platform, authors will be able to upload their creative works to the blockchain by themselves, specifying all the needed parameters of their work and the authorship of it. Once the files are uploaded, they’re hashed and the result is recorded in the blockchain.
In case any dispute arises, the author can refer to the blockchain as a proof of their authorship.
LINKS:
Website: http://rasmart.io/
Whitepaper: https://rasmart.io/doc/WhitePaper.pdf
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