Select Page

Certifying Copyright in Canada on the Blockchain

Research Overview

Author: Davide Cargnello, Matt Jackson
Release Date: March 20, 2019

Abstract:

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 de la Colombie-Britannique – et se termine par un cours potentiel pour l’enregistrement futur du droit d’auteur.

 

Copyright 2019 Blockchain Research Institute – not for distribution

Fullscreen Mode

 

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Fullscreen Mode

 

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

 

Certifying Copyright in Canada On the Blockchain

Copyright 2019 Blockchain Research Institute ™.
This infographic is exclusively available for distribution to employees of BRI member organization.

 

Certifying Copyright in Canada On the Blockchain

Copyright 2019 Blockchain Research Institute ™.
This infographic is exclusively available for distribution to employees of BRI member organization.

Related Content

Web 3 and the Music Industry

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 Christof Straub, CEO and founder, Global Rockstar.

Read More

Webinar: Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, and the Battlefield of Things

Colonel James Allen Regenor (Ret), CEO of VeriTX Corp., and Brigadier General Blaine Holt (Ret), former deputy US military representative to North Atlantic Treaty Organization, discuss the nature of cyberthreats and opportunities to use distributed ledger technologies in combination with other digital innovations to protect lives and assets. It’s about the trivergence of AI, IoT, and blockchain in cyberwarfare. Topics include logistics under attack, adversarial logistics, Estonia’s use of data embassies (an excellent model for safeguarding global enterprise assets), fortifying government data pipes, and managing multi-domain operations where outerspace is a new domain for military and enterprise.

Read More
Subscribe