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Title: [2016-05-23] Copyright Infringement Disputes? Blockchain Can Provide Solutions
Post by: jjacob on May 23, 2016, 04:29:30 PM
Copyright Infringement Disputes? Blockchain Can Provide Solutions

Fox uses an existing Youtube video in an episode of Family Guy, then complains about copyright infringement and takes down the video.

This is just one of the many cases where large media organizations have unfairly used the provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Could blockchain provide a foolproof and fair way of dealing with copyright infringement disputes?

Read more here (http://cointelegraph.com/news/copyright-infringement-disputes-blockchain-can-provide-solutions?ref=5938)


Title: Re: [2016-05-23] Copyright Infringement Disputes? Blockchain Can Provide Solutions
Post by: pattu1 on May 23, 2016, 11:55:18 PM
Even if a person records the hash of his work on the blockchain, there could be problems.
Others could claim that they created it much earlier, but didnt record it on the blockchain.