Very interesting project
As someone in the Media Industry there is just a few things I hope you don't mind clarifiying
- How will you protect copyright material and infringment?
Anyone can just pass themselves off to be an artist and upload tracks belonging to other artists..and claim it is for them
How will you protect these artists and what measures you have in place to verify those making the copyright claims are actually genunine..
Also in the event of this happening and say the real artist discovers that their material is being used by someone else several months later and revenue has been generated..would there be anyway of
a) Claiming the revenue back
b) Finding out the identities of those that have "Stolen" material and passed it on as theirs
Just this little bit if you can clarify would be great
apart from that excellent project
These are good questions.
On the core player (Player by the Opus foundation) we will follow all measures to identify and remove the infringing content that exist on the network. We will not permit copyright infringing content. If we found copyrighted content we will try our greatest efforts to claim revenue back if the artist can prove ownership.
Regarding 3rd party players. These are using APIs and not endorsed Opus foundation but, like anything blockchain related, they can also use the infrastructure that the running on IPFS and Ethereum. This means that they may be a small risk of rogue players sharing copyright infringing songs. But you should keep in mind that this has nothing to do with Opus foundation. Think (Bittorrent and Piratebay) are nothing related but they use the same infrastructure (P2P)
Ofcourse on the internet there will always be imposters and rogue 3rd party players, however, so does Piratebay exist and fewer and fewer people use it. This is because most people care about the artist and want a great experience vs pirated content on a rogue player that could be shut down at any moment. Think (Napster).
Nevertheless, in both situations the Opus network will grow and our budget would increase because the more people use the infrastructure, the great the value of the system. (This kind of reminds me of Bitcoin in 2012, people were afraid it would only be used for crime, but nowadays people use it for everything because in the end the legitimate service will always win)
Also the dev team is considering to implement an Oracle system that people can "Judge" on legitimate uploads, but because we don't have this planned or experimented this Oracle system just yet we have omitted this from the post.
Hope this clears it up and for more information check our website
http://opus-foundation.org/
