How Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Will Revolutionize the Music Industry

November 17, 2017By rightstech

Boogie Shack has teamed up with Tao Network, a blockchain-based content distribution platform for the music industry, to launch the coin (Symbol XTO) on CCEX and plan to use this bitcoin to create unique cryptocurrency for music artists.

Source: How Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Will Revolutionize the Music Industry | Inc.com

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AI Companies Get the Picture

By Paul Sweeting

One of the biggest challenges facing copyright owners in grappling with the rapid development of generative AI technology, apart from a murky legal status, has been market failure, as discussed here in previous posts. The amount of existing material needed to train gen-AI models is so great, and so varied, that gauging the value of any one piece of it to establish a market price for it for licensing purposes is often effectively impossible. One group of rights owners is finding willing buyers among AI companies, however. An active, albeit for various reasons mostly sotto voce market has begun to emerge for the use of images held in large photo archives and by photo agencies and social media platforms, complete with per-unit industry and at least a nod toward creator attribution... Read More >>

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