Web 3 and the Music Industry
File Type: Document, Infographic
https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/web-3-and-the-music-industry/
Oct 19, 2022 - In this project, our research lead reviews what we learned from the music industry’s first wave of blockchain innovation and explores the opportunities in its second wave, including innovations such as non-fungible tokens and metaverse experiences. He looks at the barriers to realizing these opportunities, including risks such as the legal grey area around who holds the intellectual property rights to minting music-related NFTs. He includes excerpts of his in-depth interviews of Scott Cohen, former chief innovation officer, Warner Music Group; Sophie Goossens, partner, Reed Smith; Vaughn McKenzie-Landell, CEO and co-founder of JAAK; and Chr...
How Blockchain is Transforming the Creative Industries
File Type: Document, Infographic, Video
https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/how-blockchain-is-transforming-the-creative-industries/
Nov 10, 2017 - This project examines intellectual property on the blockchain. It identifies the key issues, strategies, and approaches to managing copyright in the creative industries that will enable artists to capitalize on this breakthrough technology, navigate the associated complexities, and disintermediate any party that adds no value.
Keyword: copyright,
digital rights management,
film,
intellectual property,
licensing,
marketing,
media & telecom,
music,
royalties,
SDG 16,
SDG 9
Webinar #5: How Blockchain Is Transforming Creative Industries
File Type: Video
https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/webinar-5-how-blockchain-is-transforming-creative-industries/
Jan 22, 2018 - Hosted by BRI Managing Director Hilary Carter and featuring Marcus O'Dair, the Convenor of the Blockchain For Creative Industries Cluster at University of Middlesex. Marcus is the author of the BRI's "Blockchain and the Creative Industries" project. The webinar explores how, for the first time ever, the creators of value can maintain control over their intellectual property, and even reclaim it, using the blockchain.
Keyword: copyright,
digital rights management,
film,
intellectual property,
licensing,
marketing,
media & telecom,
music,
royalties,
SDG 16,
SDG 9
Saving the Web
File Type: Document, Infographic
https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/saving-the-web/
Dec 09, 2018 - Amid ongoing reports of surveillance, censorship, and massive hacking of data, this research explores how distributed ledger technology can address the challenges of the World Wide Web. The authors argue that blockchain can support the Internet’s founding ideals, decentralize the Internet, and restore the balance of power between individuals and large organizations. They focus on three big issues: open access, fair participation, and the recovery of the individual sovereignty as users. The authors interviewed such experts as Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Joseph Lubin of Consensus Systems, Shane Greenstein of Harvard Business School, Rouven Heck of u...
Keyword: Facebook,
free speech,
GDPR,
HTTP,
law & regulation,
net neutrality,
privacy,
SDG 10,
SDG 3,
self-sovereign identity,
TCP/IP,
technology,
W3 Consortium
Certifying Copyright in Canada on the Blockchain
File Type: Document, Infographic
https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/certifying-copyright-in-canada-on-the-blockchain/
Mar 20, 2019 - This project explores how the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) might leverage blockchain technology to add value to copyright registration at the national level. It describes early proofs of concepts—such as British Columbia business registry—and concludes with a potential course for the future of copyright registration.
Ce projet explore comment l'Office de la propriété intellectuelle du Canada (OPIC) pourrait tirer parti de la technologie de la blockchain pour ajouter de la valeur à l'enregistrement du droit d'auteur au niveau national. Il décrit les premières preuves de concepts - comme le registre des entreprises ...
Keyword: agence littéraire,
CIPO,
copyright registry,
digital rights management,
e-book,
gestion des droits numériques,
government,
Innovation Science and Economic Development,
Innovation Sciences et Développement économique,
Institut sur la gouvernance,
Institute on Governance,
law & regulation,
literary agency,
livre électronique,
Ministre de l'Innovation,
OPIC,
Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act,
publishing,
registre des droits d'auteur,
SDG 16
The Networked Hotbeds of Blockchain
File Type: Document, Infographic
https://www.blockchainresearchinstitute.org/project/the-networked-hotbeds-of-blockchain/
Jan 15, 2018 - This paper showcases the hotbeds of blockchain activity around the world—those cities and nations that have become hubs for financing and incubation of entrepreneurial initiatives—and explains the conditions under which distributed ledger start-ups are thriving in each jurisdiction.
Keyword: Australia,
diversity,
Dubai,
Estonia,
fintech,
government,
Hong Kong,
London,
New York,
R&D,
SDG 11,
SDG 8,
SDG 9,
Singapore,
start-up,
Sydney,
United Kingdom,
Zug
