Hi! Here is overview about Global Copyright Register based on blockchain technology.
I found that project interesting, because it will help to each photographer to save his time in combating with illegal photo usage.
So how it's gonna work?
Very simple to user! As a photographer - you registering in the system, creating your portfolio and here it is - once you identified for uploaded picture as owner - copyright will be yours.
How?
There is totally automated process from more than 50 steps and only thing you need - spend some time for 3 steps:
1)Upload images directly or via API;
Create collections and select categories;
The crawling process kicks off automatically and runs constantly;
2)Mark illegal images among the search results;
Filter already licensed pictures;
Option to whitelist whole domains or a single hit;
3)Assign a royalty fee;
Submit the case and the post-licensing process starts;
We take care of the rest;
What is going to be with your photos what was posted not from you?
The webservices who posted not licenced photos will be informed about illegal usage and asked to remove the picture. If not - then infringing party will receive an invoice which will be enforced by a collection process. If this not helped again then the legal department distributes the cases to the legal partners in each country, who will write a legal letter to the infringing party.
And in the last, if all previous steps does not helped - Copytrack lawyer creates claim at court and will enforce the rights.
I see this service very useful for photo industry, so if you don't want to worry about any illegal usage of your photos - just register them in your COPYTRACK portfolio and do not forget to put the web resourse where you going to use your pictures into the white list of Copytrack!
Most interesting part - you can earn with copyrights selling. This platform will provide to everybody to buy licences for picture using. That's sweet!
Web: copytrack.io
White-paper: https://copytrack.io/pdf/Copytrack_ICO_Whitepaper.pdf
Forum: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2618918.0