What if Steemit could tell you the original creator of an image or article?
It's exciting that Steem pays users to post, but what if the content someone posts isn't really theirs? Do they deserve the Steem Dollars?
Mediachain is trying to solve the problem of misattribution by building an open, universal media library that can automatically connect media to its original creator, anywhere it is shared.
The GIF That Fell to Earth is a post from the Mediachain blog that tells the story of a GIF by artist Helen Green that went viral earlier this year when David Bowie died. It chronicles how she didn't get the credit she deserved as her image was shared across the internet, and explains how Mediachain can help:
What if any image, video, or song you saw online resolved to a chain of metadata that recorded and preserved all the important information about the life of the work on the internet?
The act of seeing an image would open a gateway to an artist’s identity, the work’s history, or more works by the creator.
Attribution would always be preserved, context and history would never be lost, and the life of an image could always be visualized.
This future could look something like this:
On a platform like Steemit, an image could be a gateway to the original creator, and it would be possible to reward them with Steem directly.
So how does Mediachain work?
In short Mediachain combines an open, decentralized database (a blockchain!) with content identification technology, like Shazam or Google Reverse Image Search. This means Mediachain allows applications and developers to recognize an image based on what it looks like, or a song based on what it sounds like, and in effect, turn a unit of media into an information transmitter that is always connected to it's creator, origin and it's history, anywhere it is shared.
The Mediachain protocol is open source and I am one of the project leads. I'd love to hear your thoughts on how a protocol like Mediachain could help the community here at Steemit.
Welcome to Steemit. Mediachain looks like a fantastic application of blockchain tech.
Wow! This is a great concept, I think Mediachain would be perfect for Steemit, as someone who has had their work stolen on and off Steemit, I would love to see this.
At the moment on Steemit, there is a bot called Cheetah, and it can detect duplicated content and posts a warning in the reply.
However with Mediachain, maybe there could be a visible tag, over the thumbnail, which would make it clear that the content wasn't original, perhaps it could be colour coded, to reflect exactly how much of the material has been copied.
I think it's especially good for images, I use images that I see all over the place and it's impossible to know where they originated from. As a former photographer, when someone used my image, I didn't mind as long as I got a credit.
Very interesting; what's the timeline on it?
Cheers
CG
okay it looks pretty good , Upvote now
Looking forward to see this out in the wild!
One of my concerns for Steemit's future stems from the requirement that images = links. These links are most often to copyrighted content, sometimes to stock photos. It's one thing when a blogger uses your images on a not for direct profit post... Quite another when that image is part of blog content that makes more money than most books.
There's no way to sue the Blockchain, but Steemit could encounter Pirate Bay type issues with server hosting. And since the Blockchain is transparent, rights holders could track the movement of Steem to Bitcoin to exchange to bank, and identify the unauthorized user.
I like your idea since it includes rights holders in the income stream, and keeps users accountable for their decisions to use other people's content. The main difficulty I see is that for any content held by a corporation, you're talking about dealing with sclerotic institutions whose first reaction to "Hey, we found a way for you to monetize what's now piracy" will be to sue and or issue take down notices and or sue the founders personally...
That said, this is a great step in the right direction when it comes to fairness to original content creators who are now not sharing in the wealth being created partially by piggy backing on their content.
There's already a crude-type bot on steemit that tries to detect text content and images to notify curators/voters, but in a more classical way of analysis. I think more indepth ways like this, certainly have a future.
Just letting you know @jessewalden, I referenced this article in my latest piece here:
https://steemit.com/ethics/@condra/copyright-doing-the-right-thing-will-it-pay-off
Best of luck
One of the blockchain use cases is to validate ownership of music, articles, images, etc. I like where you're going with allowing authors and artist to be paid in STEEM for their work.
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