Showing my startup, Blockai. We're helping photographers claim their copyrights.

see post below.


-'Stache

 

Welcome!
At the least, your link is going to be deleted per the "Welcome!" sticky post link above.

Also what you have posted may well be adjudicated by the moderators as SPAM so there is also a possibility you will be banned for also violating TPF's TOS.
However, you may instead be invited top pay to advertise here on TPF by becoming a Supporting Vendor.

Copyright registration is not very costly.

 

Hi Keith. Copyright registration with the Government is not made for the web, there's no API or public data you can use to find out who owns the copyright for a file. We're not trying to replace the need to register with the Gov. In fact, the U.S. Copyright Office has been out to our office and like what we're building.

 

Nathan, you are deflecting.
What you are doing is advertising - and this site requires that, if you want to advertise, you must pay for the audience.

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The copyright office eh? Sounds like government mind control to me.

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I kind of find it ironic that someone whose self-styled mission in life is to enforce 'the rules' doesn't read those that apply to himself.

 

What rule/rules would that/those be?

 

Bitcoin?? A step in between registering with the Library of Congress and doing nothing (granted, that may be so). I don't know what's with the emphasis on that but as it says on the LOC site, it's easy to do...
Steps To Copyright (Taking the Mystery Out of Copyright) (Library of Congress)

Interesting what turns up in a search.

Why would there be an advantage in using this instead of just registering copyright? I don't see why I'd want a certificate from Blockai showing my photos are 'registered' (and paid for and recorded) in the Blockai database. But I guess the phrase 'paid for' explains it - seems like a way for Blockai to make money but I don't see any advantage for me as a photographer. I can register my photos myself... and think about where I'd post them, and get/stay informed about copyright (and infringement) thru pro photographer organizations, etc. etc.

 

And you 'believe' that a record created on the blockchain would serve as sufficient evidence in court?? (I'm reading the article on Techcrunch.) And sending the Blockai certificate would be more serious than an Instagram photo? Well, yeah, probably... but why would I send an Instagram photo instead of a DMCA takedown notice?

The article on Petapixel says the Blockai certificate shows proof of 'publishing' - but a copyrighted photograph is not necessarily published, it would depend on how the photo was used. But then, Petapixel articles aren't necessarily accurate, but thankfully there's a comment from Jack Reznicki who's at least one voice of some reason with some knowledge of copyright.


And if this could potentially give copyright violators a way to pay artists, does Blockai keep some of that payment or does it all go to the photographer?


(And why is it when I start looking into these type things, it's the proverbial onion being peeled? I don't really want an answer, it's a rhetorical question.)

 

You're kidding, right?

 

Guys, seriously.. cool it. Don't you get it? All this information is being collected and transmitted directly to the "Copyright Office"... which as everyone knows is just a front for the NSA.