The creative economy, signed originals and blockchain technology(bernardlunn.com)
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The creative economy, signed originals and blockchain technology
http://bernardlunn.com/2015/01/15/the-creative-economy-signed-originals-and-blockchain-technology/
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It's a good idea for licensing but there's nothing special about a digital original because it's not aesthetically different from the reproductions. You have a Picasso, you can put your nose up to it and stare at the brushstrokes, take it off the wall and look at the back of the canvas, stick your elbow through it and so on. You take an original Shakespeare folio, you can look at the curve of his handwriting and the food stains on the corners and so on. a blockchain-certified document is qualitatively different, but the experience of examining it is not; it's texture-less and cannot even offer a sense of intimacy-by-proxy.
nothing ever is quite the same in move from analog to digital, but yes it is harder to see the use cases in digital
Thinking about it this morning while looking at some art I had made, I suppose you could think of the original in the case of a Photoshop document that had all the original layers, edit history and so on included in the file. But I'm not sure I see them selling for large sums.
We could call that technology "Bitcoin DRM."
Except it is informative rather than preventing copying. So people can freely copy but won't have the certified 'original'.
That is interesting. Asserting "I created this" and having that validated, is different from saying how I want to control that.
Yes it's a great idea, and in the OP article he asks "Is anybody working on this?" The answer is yes - there is a proof of concept illustrated in this article:
https://www.pirateparty.org.uk/party-magazine/who-made-could...
And others are working on this as a service for many uses, including signing artwork, see BT Proof, for example: https://www.btproof.com/
And others are working on this as a service for many uses, including signing artwork, see BT Proof, for example: https://www.btproof.com/
thanks. I see one other attempt, covered in another HN thread - not yet released though.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8854818
Monegraph (Kevin McCoy) is working on roughly this - http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/09/monegraph/