SOURCE: Pete Rizzo, CoinDesk DATE: 3.16.16
According to CrunchBase, there were nine investors in the round, including Ramen Underground, Social Starts, Sterling.VC, and Vectr Ventures as well as several individuals. AngelList shows additional investors, including Paul Jeffries, who leads Policy Strategy and Legal Ops at Facebook.
Blockchain For Creative Industries Research Cluster Middlesex University releases report, Music on the Blockchain, about the opportunities and challenges for blockchain technology to solve problems in the music industry.
It is one the most comprehensive reports I have seen since the Rethink Music initiative (from the Berklee’s Institute of Creative Entrepreneurship) published Transparency and Money Flows one year ago.
In addition, it is great to see consideration of past efforts to achieve what blockchain technology is capable of for this industry, namely the Global Repertoire Database.
SOURCE: Olusegun Ogundeji, “Blockchain Going for a Song: New Tech Tunes Up Music Industry”, CoinTelegraph. DATE: 5.22.16.
Francis Gurry suggests this emerging tech may be a way of experimenting with how to simplify the copyright system.
SOURCE: WIPO Magazine. DATE: April 2016.
Imogen explains key opportunities and challenges in the current state of the music industry, and how Mycelia can address them via a multi-stakeholder model, quality certification marks, a verified database, and smart contracts.
What questions do you have about Mycelia?
Side note: cool to discover that WIPO (the World Intellectual Property Organization) has a magazine!
ORIGINAL SOURCE: Provisional IT Modernization Plan. DATE: 2.19.16. SECONDARY SOURCE: JD Supra Business Advisor. DATE: 3.16.16.
Blockchain tech isn’t directly referenced in the plan, but it does say:
“This IT Plan, when implemented, would change a number of existing paradigms. Copyright Registration would move away from a large proprietary software product managed by the Copyright Office to a model that enables third parties to build a variety of products on an open source technology platform that can seamlessly interoperate with Copyright Office systems.”
How do you think this will turn out?
Robert Ashcroft discusses the complexity of managing copyrights in sound recordings and underlying musical compositions as well as metadata and other standards. Blockchain gets a s/o from the interviewer, George Howard. “Crowd-sourcing the meta data” comes up, too.
SOURCE: Forbes. DATE: 1.28.16.
SOURCE: TechCrunch. DATE: June 24, 2015.
The Copyright Hub releases one of the 90+ projects it has in the pipeline: Clixta, a photo sharing app that uses Hub technology.
SOURCES: The Register. Date: 05.05.16. BBC. Date: 05.04.16.
It’s pretty new, but sounds to me like Clixta lets users control how and with whom they share photos, all while retaining the metadata through the use of a digital identifier, or “hub key”.
Metadata is important for maintaining the link between the person who created the photo, the terms they want it used on, and the photo itself. These data points often get separated when we repost using traditional social media sites, causing authors’ to lose control over their creative work. Mediachain has a stellar explanation of this with a viral David Bowie GIF.
It’s interesting that the Copyright Hub doesn’t “have any ideology about how copyright should be used other than it should work well, whether for commercial, educational, non-commercial or other goals”.
It’ll be fun to see which direction users take Clixta. I’m down with CH’s open and practical approach. After all, blockchain is giving us opportunities to try new ways of doing things, and see what we works better.
From a legal perspective, I think the U.S. Copyright law more directly supports an app like Clixta than UK copyright law, which is traditionally rooted in commercial utility. For reference, the purpose for copyright law in the U.S. is found in Art. I. Sec. 8 Cl. 8 of the U.S. Constitution: to “promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors […] the exclusive Right to their respective Writings…”.
Big ups to the Copyright Hub and Clixta! Can’t wait to see what app CH will release next.
Did you download the app? What do you think?
Upfront Ventures led the round, which follows an undisclosed seed round led by Mark Cuban in October 2015.
SOURCE: Tubefilter. DATE: April 26, 2016
SOURCE: Earning Money For Music Via MUSE Blockchain Platform with CCEDK and PeerTracks DATE: 2016-01-23
Muse (blockchain-based platform), CCEDK (crypto-exchange), and PeerTracks (streaming service) partner. Appears they plan to innovate blockchain-enabled business models for distributing music and facilitating transactions between artists and fans. The concept of artists selling VIP tokens directly to fans with various benefits sounds interesting!
Would you buy one?
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