It is now almost eight years since we started work on the International Standard Content Code (ISCC). In a few weeks, it will become a global ISO standard. The ISCC is a unique identifier for digital media content. It uses specialised algorithms to create a code that...
Context This is my comment on the study on “Intellectual Property Rights and Distributed Ledger Technology with a focus on art NFTs and tokenised art”, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional...
We are witnessing a paradigm shift: after centuries of expropriation of authors and rights holders by printers, publishers, reproduction and copying machines, platforms and pirates, the question of (intellectual) property is experiencing a new turn in the context of...
This post is a transcript of a presentation that was given on 22 April 2021 at the LUISS Law School during a webinar on “Rules and Tools: Exceptions and technologies in the DSM Directive” within the activities of BILL Blockchain, artificial Intelligence and digital...
On 31 October 2008, a link to a paper authored by Satoshi Nakamoto titled ‘Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System’ was posted to a cryptography mailing list. This publication triggered a revolution in banking and the financial industries. The...
Example for a content certificate, image via pixabay.com The Open Content Certification Protocol (OCCP) Motivation Why do we need content certification? What we are seeing at this moment is the convergence of a number of independent developments that will shape the...
The Content Blockchain Initiative has been nominated as one of the 24 finalists of the ‘EIC Prize Blockchain for Social Good’. “The Content Blockchain is an open initiative and decentralized blockchain network tailored to the specific needs of the...
On its annual meeting on 8 May 2019 in Ottawa, ISO/TC 46/SC 9 decided to accept the International Standard Content Code (ISCC) as a Preliminary Work Item (PWI) and to establish a working group on Digital-Content-Based Identification with experts from various countries...
Abstract In 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published a paper called “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”. This publication triggered a revolution in banking and the financial industries. The dynamics of innovation initiated by the latest developments of blockchain...
The Content Blockchain Project is the winner of the ‘digital publishing award’ 2019 in the category ‘startups’. The collaborative initiative has been awarded in recognition for its ambition to trigger digital innovation in the publishing industry by promoting a...
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