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Webinar #5: How Blockchain Is Transforming Creative Industries

Webinar Overview

Author: Hilary Carter, Marcus O'Dair
Release Date: January 22, 2018

Abstract:

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.

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