by Sebastian Posth | 2024/02/25 | Allgemein, ISCC
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...
by Sebastian Posth | 2022/12/10 | Allgemein, NFT, Urheberrecht
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...
by Sebastian Posth | 2021/06/06 | Allgemein, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Copyright, Digital Signatures, ISCC, NFT
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... by Sebastian Posth | 2021/04/30 | Allgemein, Blockchain, ISCC
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... by Sebastian Posth | 2020/10/31 | Allgemein, Bitcoin, Blockchain
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...
by Sebastian Posth | 2020/09/18 | Allgemein, Blockchain, Business Modelle
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...