A leading Chinese e-commerce outfit Alibaba has earned a U.S. Patent that will allow the giant to offer blockchain-backed solutions to identify plagiarism in the music industry. The e-commerce firm received the Patent on April 21 from the U.S. Patent and Trade Mark office. This will help in analyzing music originality. This will be made possible through the use of a global decentralized public ledger to detect any plagiarism in music.
Source: Blockchain music plagiarism detection, Alibaba acquires US Patent | Cryptopolitan