Quote from: stockblock on November 06, 2017, 12:04:36 PM

Quote from: shogun47 on November 06, 2017, 10:21:58 AM

You talk about artists all the time but your OP mostly deals with medical applications. Is there a reason for it or what is the scope of possible applications for this project?

What is OP?

The project is all about Copyright protection and Marketplace for media artist. Initially, the platform will be for photographers & illustrators (Images mainly). The platform will be extended to other digital assets like music and videos.

How copyright protection works:

Currently, none of the stock photography websites offer copyright solution to the photographers(Artist). If the images are stolen, there's no proof of ownership. It's difficult to prove the image ownership unless you have legally registered the image with the government. Unfortunately, the registrars don't do much beyond registering your images. For photographers, its financially not possible to legally register and pay for thousands of images.

This is where blockchain comes in. The ability to securely store copyright information on the blockchain is ideal. Once the information is registered, it cannot be altered. All of this can be done using SmartContracts. The SmartContract can also receive payments for the images or any artwork that is for sale.

Secondly, all payments received by the contracts are final with no scope of reversing the payments. The artist receives the payment instantly.

Along with copyright information, we will also provide a monitoring system for images. The artist will be able to track who uses their images, who bought it and everything in between. The true power of using decentralized blockchain system.

We have released an alpha version of the platform: http://alpha.stockblock.io

The images used on the alpha version are random images. It has nothing to do with medicine.

Hey, OP is Official Post. First page of the thread first post so to say. Your post explains very well where you are going with this project. And your example about the artists makes a lot of sense. How are you going to achieve reliable tracking? What if I take a screenshot of an image and not download the image itself, how are you going to recognize someone abuses the image? Is that possible?