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...
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...
