Blockai Taps the Bitcoin Blockchain to Protect Creative Content
Blockai, a San Francisco, Calif.-based technology company, has developed a copyright service that uses the bitcoin blockchain to allow artists to protect their creative work in the digital age. While the Internet has unleashed a wealth of opportunities for creative work, protecting content has posed a big challenge, especially for independent producers of digital art, literature and even computer software. Tapping Artificial Intelligence. “We are developing artificial intelligence to create unique fingerprints for all copyrighted works to protect copyrights and make sure artists get paid,”....
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Blockai now allows online content creators to claim cryptographic proof of their works to be recorded on the Bitcoin blockchain so that it gives basic copyright protection which can help owners remove copyright violations. Registering a copyright with Blockai will remain free forever. CEO Nathan Lands says to TechCrunch: “The blockchain is the perfect solution for providing proof of creation. It’s a permanent immutable record. Meaning, once the record is there, it’s there forever and will never change.” Copyright protection as profitable business. According to Blockai, copyright protection....
"It was awkward and it was a viral loop. People tipped $150,000 in 10 days, and then a lot of people who got bitcoin... it sat there and they didn't do anything with it, ever." Blockai CEO Nathan Lands is referring to the spike in interest in first bitcoin project, QuickCoin, a Facebook-integrated wallet that sought to entice new users. That project has now evolved into Blockai (pronounced 'block-i'), which takes a similar approach to spreading bitcoin, although it places more emphasis on the capabilities of its blockchain rather than its use as a digital currency. While resembling a....
Blockai has announced it has raised $547,000 in seed funding to relaunch as a blockchain copyright service. Originally envisioned as a ‘Netscape for Bitcoin’ in 2015, Blockai (pronounced 'block-i') attempted to turn the blockchain into a kind of social media stream that would allow users to send messages and authenticate items. Now, Blockai is bidding for a new life as a tool that allows artists to authenticate and claim copyright over images. According to AngelList, Social Starts, Sterling VC and Vectr Ventures contributed funding alongside roughly 15 angel investors including Betfair....
Mine Labs, a New York-based blockchain startup has announced the development of Mediachain, a Bitcoin blockchain-based decentralized metadata protocol which relies on the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) to protect and ensure the rights to creative digital works. Since early 2015, emerging blockchain startups have begun to focus on the development of blockchain-based identity and authentication systems to assist artists, freelancers and digital content providers to protect their work from being plagiarised. To encrypt and store digital rights on the Bitcoin blockchain, most of these....
Fox has announced a $100 million fund under its NFT firm Blockchain Creative Labs, and is set to launch a range of NFT content, digital goods, and assets. Rupert Murdoch's mass media company Fox Corp. has launched a $100 million creative fund for NFTs, under the auspices of its ne NFT firm Blockchain Creative Labs.The NFT division was unveiled last month alongside a new animated comedy series dubbed “Krapopolis” from Rick and Morty co-creator Dan Harmon. The show is set to premiere in 2022, and will be a satirical comedy focused on life in ancient Greece. Fox says he $100 million in....