Re: Using block chain protocols for www micropayments and rights management

On 14 May 2014 10:31, Joseph Potvin <jpotvin@opman.ca> wrote:

> Richard,
>
> A digital commodity such as a bitcoin is divisible but not editable. A
> digital literary work is both divisible and editable. There are ways
> to automate some rights tracking:
>
> http://osi.xwiki.com/bin/Projects/draft-flow-syllabus#HManagementofIntellectualProvenance28IP29Responsibilities
>
>
Heritage and copyright principles cover these areas rather well...

These principles can be described in RDF.  http://creativecommons.org/ns is
a good example of a tool that can be used towards these ends.

it currently doesn't provide an 'offer' statement for use outside of the
explicitly defined license however.  I believe Andrew Mackie has been
working on this 'offer' consideration.

IMHO, Eco-systems work in a distributed / decentralised build; but wouldn't
work for any specific organisation seeking to build a better funnel (from a
service provision point of view).  Effectively, these systems need a vast
majority to build consensus systems; therein, using the same, similar or
translatable language services, for the core service provisioning platform
(being, web-scale).


> The issue of what is a derivative work is a matter of reasoned
> judgement, so I would recommend that the generic use case is best left
> to people to determine.
>
> Joseph Potvin
> Operations Manager, The Opman Company
> jpotvin@opman.ca
>
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 7:58 PM, Poor Richard <poor.ricardo@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello RWW and Web Payments CG,
> >
> > Can bitcoin-style block chain protocols support an alternative form of
> > intellectual property and personal data management? For example,
> whenever we
> > create social media content or provide personal data, our
> > authorship/ownership of that digital material and the publishing
> transaction
> > might be documented via some block chain protocol. Besides a "timestamp"
> any
> > thing we post might get an automatic "authorship" stamp (and optionally
> an
> > ownership rights stamp) that would follow that data forever.
> >
> > What about a similar approach to micropayments?
> >
> > Both of these applications would beg the question, what is the minimal
> > viable block chain for the level of security required -- becuase the
> number
> > of transactions might be in the billions per day.
> >
> > PR
> >
> >
>
>
>
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