One thing the internet disrupted is the art world and copyright beginning with Napster and the fight still continues, in this scenario attempts like the one given in the article below aims to bring back the traditional copyright to digital environment with block chain technology..What is the path forward where some predict copyrights will become extinct and what role will block chain technology play in it.
http://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/read/a-bitcoin-for-gifs-aims-to-make-digital-art-ownable?utm_source=motherboardfb
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Note that many things 'free' on the web come at the cost of privacy, and manipulation. Monetizing in better ways is a very acceptable topic, authors need to eat and stuff, and we can probably do it better, with fewer middlemen.
Imo the holy grail of it is a system where things are determined to be derivative of each other automatically, on a generalized basis, and advertising/donations are automatically send down the derivatives chain. I expect that context dependent approaches work better though.
Systems where people just form author groups are easier though, but then they have to associate. That has a cost where people are left/in out and there is a process to that.
I heard about approaches where people can form writing groups, or where it works on loyality between software developers, essentially. People would find the packages from a NameReg that also reinforces it. But i'd worry about the user-facing ones having too much power.
Because of the trivial copying thing, they all really require loyalty from the end user. Or, the user not acting stupid, like allowing monetization by people that didnt actually contribute..
Much more interesting would be to lock the access to the art using public/private keys and then exchange said art on a decentralized market. You now have a system where the artists are in control and get directly rewarded for their efforts.
I think this topic will be seen from different viewpoint, there are lot of people who disagree with copyrights(Piratebay) and there are people who favor copyrights and patents.
@jasper so what are you finally suggesting..blockchain will favour the Napster types or it will bring traditional copyright to internet...
Of course plagiarism is a different deal. I putting your own name on it and just taking advertising and donation money from works that arent your own.
For a little more on the Statute of Anne, see
http://www.copyrighthistory.com/anne.html
It may be that we move past a point in time or technology where we can protect against or limit re-productibility. Maybe the law changes along the way. But value can still be ascribed to certain creators or content streams. And this is where reputation is an important marker of value -- fungible, maybe, but only in the form of someone vouching for you (like a credit-default swap, though that may be an unfortunate analogy).
Largely the sentiment is that we should not limit re-producibility. Trying to limit reproducibility with stuff like DRM is the same as telling me what to do with my computer, and the NSA has clearly shown us that they would overreach in that too.
Also, the method i called 'perhaps a holy grail' above doesnt really require any such limitation. The platform streams back monetization automatically and detects plagiarism. The only limitation would be is to for the data to be used outside the platform context, or worse in a platform that channels the monetization the wrong way.(which would be rather stupid if that were a well known fact, but lots of people are stupid) Though we may not get our holy grail, generally, platforms and getting people to platforms is what can monetize things. Having the platforms pay to the authors is just as important as getting people to pay.