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YouTube To Change Content ID Policy To Let Creators Profit From Disputed Videos

May 5, 2016By rightstech

Over the past few months, YouTube’s Content ID platform has generated a lot of controversy. The digital rights management service, which lets rights holders identify, claim, and monetize unlicensed use of their intellectual property, has drawn criticism from creators who believe it puts too much power in the hands of claimants.

Now, YouTube is responding. The video site has announced a change that will allow uploaders whose videos receive Content ID claims to accrue ad revenue on those videos as they contest the claims against them.

Source: YouTube To Change Content ID Policy To Let Creators Profit From Disputed Videos – Tubefilter

How To Integrate Blockchain Into Existing Businesses

May 5, 2016By rightstech

The Emer platform claims to offer Digital proof-of-ownership to merchants who are looking for both scalably and to transparently store records of both digital and physical assets on the blockchain.

From a resolution of land title disputes between law offices to licensing associated with anything from streaming video services to anti-virus software subscription, the Emer platform claims the ability to manage these processes. In addition, the verification of these records is much simpler to access and complete using the Emer platform as all records are kept securely and accurately on the blockchain. This can lower costs and the time spent both from a customer perspective and from a lawyer’s perspective, removing the need to deal with physical documents to complete routine transactions.

Source: How To Integrate Blockchain Into Existing Businesses

In Possible Threat to Must-Carry, GAO Says Broadcast License Phase-out Feasible

May 5, 2016By rightstech

The General Accountability Office has concluded that phasing out cable and satellite statutory licenses for the retransmission of broadcast content “may be feasible for most” participants, and the U.S. Copyright Office agreed. Must-carry rules could be threatened as a result.

GAO also said that increasing the individual negotiations could lead to broadcast “blackouts,” already a complaint by cable operators over retrans negotiations with blanket licenses. It would make sense that the more individual negotiations required, the more potential for disagreement and disruption, though some content providers argue there would also be more opportunity for a marketplace-set rate on their content rather than a government-set blanket license they argue is artificially low.

Source: In Possible Threat to Must-Carry, GAO Says Broadcast License Phase-out Feasible | Broadcasting & Cable

Copyright Clearance Center Acquires Ixxus

May 4, 2016By rightstech

Copyright-Clearance-Center Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a firm dedicated to creating global licensing and content solutions that make copyright work, has acquired London-based Ixxus, a software professional services firm and leading provider of publishing solutions that reinvent the way organizations work with content. With offices in the UK, US, Spain and Romania, Ixxus is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of CCC. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

According to The Radicati Group, the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) market will grow from $5.5 billion in 2014 to more than $9.4 billion in 2018. This is an average annual growth of 15% over that timeframe. The Ixxus proposition goes beyond the traditional ECM offering, combining content modeling, semantic linking and advanced workflow capabilities to support the publishing process from end to end and deliver truly ‘smart content.’

Source: Copyright Clearance Center Acquires Ixxus | Digital Book World

Chain, With Visa, Citi, Nasdaq And Others, Releases Blockchain Protocol

May 3, 2016By rightstech

Monday, one of the leading startups in the space, San Francisco-based Chain, published a new open source protocol, or set of technical standards, called the Chain Open Standard for building a blockchain network that can securely, privately and rapidly handle a large volume of transactions.

Depending on the hardware and network configuration, it can process tens of thousands of transactions per second. In contrast, the Bitcoin blockchain is currently capable of processing roughly six or seven transactions per second.

The Chain OS is focused on networks that can digitize the world’s existing assets (not a new currency like Bitcoin), whether commonplace ones like gift cards or more obscure ones like syndicated loans, and was developed by applying the technology to real projects in areas such as banking, payments, capital markets and insurance.

Source: Chain, With Visa, Citi, Nasdaq And Others, Releases Blockchain Protocol For Financial Networks – Forbes

Banks, tech companies move on from bitcoin to blockchain

May 3, 2016By rightstech

As a debate raged across the internet Monday over whether the mysterious founder of the bitcoin digital currency had finally been identified, executives at a major bitcoin conference in New York had a simple message: we’ve moved on.

That’s because bitcoin, the digital currency, has largely been supplanted by blockchain, the technology that underlies it, as the main interest of investors, technology companies and financial institutions.

“If there is a 100 percent opportunity in the blockchain, bitcoin, or the currency, is only 1 percent of it,” said Jerry Cuomo, vice president, Blockchain Technologies at International Business Machines Corp. “So there is a whole 99 percent that has broad applications across the broad industries.”

Source: Banks, tech companies move on from bitcoin to blockchain | Reuters

Microsoft, USAA Join DC Blockchain Policy Group

May 2, 2016By rightstech

Tech giant Microsoft and military-focused banking and insurance firm USAA are among the newest members of the Chamber of Digital Commerce, a policy advocacy group focused on blockchain technology.

Founded in mid-2014, the non-profit lobbying group has spent the time since pushing for fair regulation and oversight in Washington, DC for companies working on bitcoin or blockchain applications. The group is led by Perianne Boring, a former Forbes columnist and Capitol Hill staffer. More recently, the Chamber was one of the founding organizations behind the Blockchain Alliance, a public-private forum aimed at promoting cooperation between industry stakeholders and government agencies.

Source: Microsoft, USAA Join DC Blockchain Policy Group – CoinDesk