Blockai, a San Francisco, Calif.-based technology company, has developed a copyright service that uses the bitcoin blockchain to allow artists to protect their creative work in the digital age.
While the Internet has unleashed a wealth of opportunities for creative work, protecting content has posed a big challenge, especially for independent producers of digital art, literature and even computer software.
Tapping Artificial Intelligence
“We are developing artificial intelligence to create unique fingerprints for all copyrighted works to protect copyrights and make sure artists get paid,” Nathan Lands, CEO and co-founder of Blockai, told CNN. “Kind of like Youtube’s Content ID system for the entire Internet. We’re starting with images, but eventually will work for video, music and every type of copyrighted work.”