Mediachain Labs Launches Blockchain-Based Content Attribution Engine

The task of finding images free to use on the Internet with proper attribution has become easier, thanks to the blockchain-based Mediachain Attribution Engine, which has aggregated millions of openly licensed images. By using machine learning to find the best images, Attribution Engine has launched a platform that allows users to upload any image from the web and find out who made it and where it came from. If Attribution Engine does not know the image’s creator, it suggests similar images licensed for reuse that have attribution. An Open Media Library. Attribution Engine is the first....

Blockchain technology can be used for many things, including creating a universal media library. The Mediachain team is doing exactly that, offering “open content identification technology.” What is Mediachain? Mediachain is a protocol that lets anyone register, identify, and track creative works online. Content creators can collaborate with developers....

So far, there are over two million images and metadata records in the Mediachain content library. Mediachain is a new company looking to revolutionize the way we think about registering and tracking creative works. By using blockchain technology, the Brooklyn-based company wants to create a new type of universal media library. In this day and age, keeping content original and free from copycats is proving to be quite the challenge. While some people may argue imitation is the best form of flattery, that is far from the case for content creators. In fact, there is nothing worse than....

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....

New York-based Mediachain has become the latest blockchain startup to join the portfolios of VC heavyweights Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures. The two firms announced today that they led a $1.5m seed round for the digital media startup. RRE Ventures, Digital Currency Group and LDV Capital also participated in the round, as did angel investors Alexis Ohanian, William Mougayar, Kanyi Maqubela, David Lee, Mathieu Drouin and Brian Message. The funding comes four months after the launch of Mediachain’s core product, a metadata protocol that envisions content creators timestamping....