[ANN] [ICO] Copytrack: The First Blockchain-Based Image Copyright Register

[CopytrackHQ]

WEBSITE - WHITEPAPER - TWITTER - TELEGRAM - STEEMIT

Copytrack revolutionizes how creators protect, track and monetize their work by using blockchain and smart contracts technology.

Copytrack is the undisputed market leader in uncovering image theft with headquarters in Berlin and Singapore, and subsidiaries in New York and Tokyo. With our upcoming ICO we set the precedent for a global, transparent and decentralized register for copyrights of digital content.

• PRE-SALE NOW LIVE: DECEMBER 10 TO JAN 10 https://copytrack.io
• BUSINESS WHITEPAPER https://copytrack.io/pdf/Copytrack_ICO_Whitepaper.pdf
• TECHNICAL WHITEPAPER https://copytrack.io/pdf/Copytrack_ICO_Technical_Whitepaper.pdf
• BOUNTY PROGRAM TBA

TOKEN SALE INFO:
Copytrack’s token pre-sale is open now and will be followed by the crowd sale on Jan 10th, 2018. Minimum: 0.1 ETH. Maximum: 2,500 ETH


Copytrack Vision & Market Overview

Whilst the digital image market is growing exponentially with more than 2 billion images uploaded every day, up to 85% of images online are used without a valid license. Photographers suffer an enormous financial loss and are often unaware that their images are being copied and distributed elsewhere.

On the other end of the spectrum, the image licensing market is controlled by only a few players that keep up to 70% of revenue to themselves. Copytrack is here to change that.

By introducing a distributed database for images, we are moving image copyright registration, licensing and payments to the blockchain. This will reshape how photographers and creators protect, track and monetize their work in the following ways:

1. No more image theft
By registering images directly on the blockchain, all their usage and distribution will be registered. Creators are automatically notified whenever an image is being used.

2. Global copyright database
The open and global database of rights-holders and their work allows users to easily license and track their creative work.

3. Fair & transparent compensation
The CPY token directly connects creators and clients and facilitates transactions via smart contracts. Creatives are in full control of their own pricing and licensing options without any intermediaries, who nowadays take cuts of up to 70%.


Questions? Join us on Telegram: https://t.me/copytrackhq/

About Copytrack

Copytrack is the undisputed market leader in uncovering image theft with headquarters in Berlin and Singapore and subsidiaries in New York and Tokyo. Over the past three years we have helped the photography community to claim image rights in over 50.000 of unsolicited use cases.

With the Copytrack Global Copyright Register, we are taking digital copyright registration to the next level. It is our goal is to provide a solution for the key challenges of digital content copyright as they still exist today:

• How to proof digital content authorship globally?
• How to track illegal use globally?
• How to license digital content globally?

Core Documents

• Copytrack WHITEPAPER: 3https://ico.copytrack.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Copytrack_ICO_Whitepaper.pdf
• Copytrack Technical Paper: https://ico.copytrack.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Technical_Whitepaper_Copytrack_ICO.pdf
• Copytrack Video: https://vimeo.com/243861270
  

Token Economics & Structure



Roadmap



Team



MARCUS SCHMITT (CEO)
Marcus is a serial entrepreneur and executive manager with more than 20 years of experience in founding, scaling and management of startups, SMEs and enterprises. Previous to Copytrack, he scaled the business of “Flightright” as CEO, now leading the market of legal enforcement of claims arising from flight delays and cancellations. Marcus spent three years as Vice President for the EU market at an international consultancy, and many years as a consultant for internationalization.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusmschmitt/

STEFAN BAER (CTO)
More than 15 years of professional experience as an IT expert & manager of software development. Stefan studied IT-systems engineering at Hasso-Plattner-Institute (HPI) and Information Technology at University of Potsdam. In 2009, Stefan founded PIXRAY GmbH (competitor) based on his research and master thesis in the area of image recognition. He is responsible for research & technology development, IT infrastructure and services.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/baerstefan



SANDRO MAEDER (COO)
Experienced operations and project manager with international background. Studied economic science at HTW University in Berlin, Germany. Before his current role at Copytrack, Sandro worked as the Operations Manager at VJSUAL, a company producing digital explainer videos, interactive videos and screen casts.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandro-m%C3%A4der-6b074b152

MARIE SLOWIOCZEK-MANNSFELD (Global Head of Legal)
Experienced lawyer with a focus on intellectual property and copyright law. Studied law in Berlin, Germany, and Dublin, Ireland and Prague, Czech Republic. Prior to joining Copytrack, Marie worked several years as a lawyer at Haerting Lawyers in Berlin, specializing in IP, Copyright and IT law.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marie-slowioczek-mannsfeld-abb7537a

Advisors



DANIEL EIBA (Advisor Business Model, Marketing & Sales)
Daniel is a business and operations executive with more than 14 years of experience in developing products, driving growth and monetization in digital content. He served in several leadership roles at Yahoo!, Flickr, Table.co and Uniplaces. As a former Director of Flickr, he knows the nuances of the picture business.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/danieleiba

SEBASTIAN MANNSFELD (Advisor Intl. Finance & Tax)
Sebastian is a global business operations manager holding 15 years of combined Finance and IT experience. He served in several roles at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Bearing Point, Gazprom and General Electric where he acquired his wide international taxation, accounting and  financing knowledge.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastian-mannsfeld-00831215/



SASCHA SCHUMANN (Advisor IT-Security)
Sascha is CEO of Germany’s Myra Security, helping governments and global E-Commerce companies to protect themselves against permanent online threats. He is a member of the PHP Group which oversees the well-being of the OpenSource language PHP.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sascha-schumann-41792a5b

NORIAKI OKUBO (Advisor Investments & Investor)
Noriaki has been in the technology sector for the past 15 years. He is currently Managing partner at Scentan Ventures, which is a venture capital  rm focused on technology. He also serves as a board member for several companies including Tradeshift, where he leads the 75.000.000 USD Series C Round.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/noriaki-okubo-5494654/



KEN SHISHIDO (Advisor Cryptocurrency)
Ken is one of Japan’s most famous Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Advocates. He is Co-Organizer of the Bitcoin Tokyo Meetup Group, which was founded by Roger Ver. Ken serves as an Advisor to many crypto startups and frequently speaks at crypto meetups and events. Ken is a Libertarian and believes in liberty and free market competition.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-shishido-419690a2/

AARON KOENIG (Advisor Cryptocurrency)
Aaron is an entrepreneur, consultant and writer specialising in BTC and Blockchain. He has been promoting Bitcoin and Blockchain technology since 2011 by writing and by organizing events and meetups. He has also been a speaker and panelist at numerous conferences. He is the bestselling author of the books A Beginner’s Guide to Bitcoin and Investing in Digital Currencies.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-koenig-6277781/

Presale and Crowdsale

Pre-sale registration is now live: December 10 to Jan 10: https://ico.copytrack.com
The minimum contribution amount is 0.1 ETH and the maximum contribution is 2,500 ETH.

We are launching a full TOKEN SALE to distribute the majority of the Copytrack tokens.
The date of the token sale is aimed for Jan 10th, 2018
ONLY ETHER (ETH) IS ACCEPTED.

NOTE: These tokens are strictly for use on the Copytrack Blockchain. They have no other intended uses.

Please note that this sale is not open to US citizens and residents, except accredited investors.

Ask us Anything

If you’d like to learn more about Copytrack please find us at the following channels:

• Telegram: https://t.me/copytrackhq/
• SteemIt Blog: https://steemit.com/@copytrackhq
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/copytrackhq

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[cryptowinner777]

Just discovered the Telegram group. Discussion is just starting to pick up https://t.me/copytrackhq

Public ICO starts soon but you can get a good buy at https://copytrack.io now. They are offering a strategic investor discount right now!

Good luck with the project!

[JanEmil]

Don't work.
Very very hard to find images because if you resize or edit in any way the hash value change. When you save for web all exif data on images are deleted.
The best way to find stolen images is https://images.google.com. They use advanced image recognition trained with AI.
When you find stolen images the problem is to get payment. Most images are used on privat profiles.
But the problem are real. Points for trying.

[CryptoBey]

Here is Turkish ANN thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2728246.msg27924048#msg27924048

[CopytrackHQ]

Official statement on KodakOne

Many of you asked us about the latest news on Kodak's planned ICO. Here's the statement of our CEO, Marcus Schmitt:

“It’s always been our mission to improve the protection of photographers and rightsholders online. It’s been a great recognition to be supported by over 1600 backers who have invested a total of $ 7.6 million USD in our vision to democratize copyright and prevent image theft for photographers – and this was just the pre-sale.

Unlike Copytrack, KodakOne is still in the preparation stage. We can only state 3 key differences and facts between KodakOne’s planned ICO and Copytrack’s Global Copyright Register so far:

• KodakOne is a brand licensing cooperation between Kodak and Wenn Digital Inc., a Delaware company founded in Nov.2017. Copytrack has a proven track record of several years and has developed its technology fully in-house with enforcement services in 140 countries.
• KodakOne plans to solely register images on the blockchain while Copytrack’s “Global Copyright Register” is an open blockchain for any type of digital content (images, music, video, etc.).
• KodakOne’s ICO will be a closed sale that’s only accessible to accredited investors, whereas Copytrack keeps its ICO open to all investors of the blockchain and cryptocurrency community

We can’t comment on KodakOne’s technology as neither their system nor their whitepaper are available yet.

At Copytrack we strongly believe that blockchain and cryptocurrencies set the foundation of the internet’s future. It’s exciting to be part of it and help creators protect, track and monetize their work with the Global Copyright Register. Our main sale ICO still runs until February 10”, concludes Schmitt.

Learn more about the CopytrackICO on https://copytrack.io/

[dorismak]

How does it track pictures? is there a change in the picture and can it be traced? such as, the changes in pixels and sizes

[CopytrackHQ]

still wondering why this project isn't steaming by now. i think the team need some flames

Sorry we haven't been enough active here. Our Telegram group is our main communication channel https://t.me/copytrackhq

Also, this week we closed our pre-sales at USD7.6M 

[CopytrackHQ]

How does it track pictures? is there a change in the picture and can it be traced? such as, the changes in pixels and sizes

Yes, we can track quite a few modifications. You can read more about our existing technology on our website: https://www.copytrack.com/technology/ 

[CopytrackHQ]

Update

Meet Daniel Eiba from COPYTRACK at those two conferences:

• January 15.-16. - World Crypto Economic Forum in San Francisco - More Informations at www.wcef.co
• January 18.-19. - North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami - More Informations at www.btcmiami.com

Details on when exactly to meet Daniel will be posted soon.

[cryptoslate01]

Hello Copytrack team,

I am an editor from cryptoslate.com. Copytrack ICO was just added to our ICO listing and is now available on our website.

https://cryptoslate.com/coins/copytrack/


If you need any help - feel free to contact me!

[CopytrackHQ]

Hello Copytrack team,

I am an editor from cryptoslate.com. Copytrack ICO was just added to our ICO listing and is now available on our website.

https://cryptoslate.com/coins/copytrack/


If you need any help - feel free to contact me!

Thanks 

[imunisasi]

i have 2 question :

1. is this kyc ? where i can find post about document needed ?
2. will it put in exchange ? any estimated time for it ?

[tippytoes]

It seems that everything is authentic here. But needs exposure. Even this thread has slow movement. Maybe run a sig campaign at least? Just a suggestion though. 

[moriskarlov]

After 1 month running it seems the project still looks very calm. I think you should do something to make this project look more alive. My question is whether this project also has a bounty campaign?

I would like to answer your question. Maybe project looks calm, but potential benefits for society are huge.

Yes, Copytrack project has a bounty campaign.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2711071.0

Ico will last 20 days, it is good time to join and support the project.

[devildogg]

It seems that everything is authentic here. But needs exposure. Even this thread has slow movement. Maybe run a sig campaign at least? Just a suggestion though.  

They do have it too:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2711071.0
I'm puzzled as this is a solid project with good team and tons of telegram traffic.

[nira09]

After 1 month running it seems the project still looks very calm. I think you should do something to make this project look more alive. My question is whether this project also has a bounty campaign?

I would like to answer your question. Maybe project looks calm, but potential benefits for society are huge.

Yes, Copytrack project has a bounty campaign.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2711071.0

Ico will last 20 days, it is good time to join and support the project.

yes, I really agree with you, I think the funding progress of this project is quite good, and total coins that have been sold now is 8 881 784 CPY while the remaining time is still 18 days.
and I am still curious about the soft cap of this project, does anyone know how much is the soft cap of ICO copytrack?

[Artemsv]

Interview with Marcus Schmitt, CEO of Copytrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb2aBqeskgU

CopyTrack is going ALL IN on blockchain technology to provide copyright protection and enforcement solutions that supercede anything available today. CopyTrack has established themselves as the market leader in automated copyright enforcement and their current user base spans across 140 countries. By the looks of it, they're positioned to drastically alter the way businesses, artists, publishers, and individuals are able to handle and enforce the digital rights to their content. The Global CopyTrack register will be launched Q2 of 2018 and CPY token holders will be able to stake their tokens, as Proof of Stake will be used for the consensus model of CopyTrack.

[moriskarlov]

New interesting information from Copytrack team:

-They achieved new milestone - 5,000 members in telegram group/
-COPYTRACK will be listed on hitbtc exchange in February.

Fresh interviews with team members:

Interview with Marcus Schmitt, CEO of Copytrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb2aBqeskgU

Copytrack answered the most questions from the online community.
https://vimeo.com/252535157

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[nira09]

i have 2 question :

1. is this kyc ? where i can find post about document needed ?
2. will it put in exchange ? any estimated time for it ?

I only know for question no 2
copytrack will be listed on HitBtc exchange in this month, and I think HitBtc is a good start of Exchange