CopyrightLY is a decentralised application that leverages blockchain and semantic web technologies to facilitate copyright management, for instance:
- Integrated into existing social media platforms, it allows content creators to explore ways to monetise their media beyond those made possible by those platforms.
- Provides potential reusers ways of checking the authorship of content they are willing to reuse, and the conditions under which it is available.
- Settles a consensus-based layer of authorship claims to anchor copyright transactions like decentralised content markets or Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs).
To do so, creators link content on social media platforms to on-chain authorship claims tied to their identities. They can also provide additional evidence combining off-chain data and on-chain transactions to sustain those claims. These can be used in case of a copyright complaint, even as evidence in court. This approach also discourages false claims, which cannot be retracted once on-chain.
Authorship claims are accompanied by default reuse terms modelled using semantic technologies and based on the Copyright Ontology, which provides the building blocks to make the terms machine-actionable. Reusers can negotiate these terms and, after acceptance, on-chain transactions are generated to keep track of the agreements.
CopyrightLY's development is documented in the project's Wiki.
copyrightly@rhizomik.net
Supported by project ONTOCHAIN, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 957338
