The Japanese technology company Sony wants to expand using the Blockchain technology for its digital rights management system. In this way, information on Rights to written works to be managed.
Sony has outed repeatedly as a Blockchain-Fan. The company has already worked in the summer of last year, together with IBM on a block chain-based education platform. In April of this year, Sony has filed a Patent related to the use of Blockchain technology for the management of users ‘ rights. Now the company wants to take advantage of the safety benefits of the technology to manage the rights to written works permanently.
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The project is developed jointly by Sony Music Entertainment Japan and Sony Global Education, such as the company on 15. October told from his Website. There, Sony also explains, why the Blockchain technology is currently in the focus of the development of the company:
“block chains to create networks in which programs and information are difficult to destroy, or to falsify, and are well suited for the Transmission of data and Rights. These characteristics of block chains give a lot of possible ways to use it for a range of services, including Finance, sales management, and the Sharing Economy, and we expect that Blockchains will provide in the future even more innovative services.“
As the Basis of the new system is used an already-developed System for authentication, sharing and rights management of training data. However, it should also have functions for the processing of legal information. To Sony:
explained, “This newly developed System is specialized to manage legal-related information from written works, with functions to demonstrate the date and time of the electronic data and to identify under-use of the properties of block chains, to verifiable information in a hard-to-fälschbaren way of recording and previously recorded Work. This allows the participants to share and to check when and by whom electronic data has been created.“
This so-managed plants can be electronic textbooks, music, movies, VR content and books. Legal disputes about who is the real author of the work, should thus be put a stop to.