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.
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Imogen Heap explains Mycelia to WIPO Magazine
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!
U.S. Copyright Office releases blockchain-esque IT plan
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?
blockchain to content 