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Open Rights Data Exchange
Framing data management practices in the creative industries to improve authoritative and updated information on rightsholders, terms and conditions, and licensing opportunities.
The Vision
A common European data space for copyright.
Bringing together a data infrastructure and governance framework to facilitate rights data pooling and sharing. A Common European data space for copyright ensures that more data rights become available for use in the creative industries, while keeping the companies and individuals who generate the data in control.
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The Challenge
Rights and royalty management is often complicated, slow, inaccurate, and expensive.
The creative sectors are facing data-related challenges in four areas: costs of rights management, effectiveness and efficiency of rights licensing, payment processes for rights remuneration, misappropriation, and other rights infringements.
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The Project
Creating an Open Rights Data Exchange.
The European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI) allows the pilot project to store and intermediate trusted rights data. Rightsholders will register rights and receive registration tokens. Rights users will query rights management information and receive trusted rights data.
The data needs to answer the following fundamental questions:
- Who is who? Establishing creator credentials to raise trust in the identity of authors, performers, and rightsholders.
- What is what? Using a standardised, lightweight, and similarity-preserving fingerprint to identify all kinds of digital content (text, image, audio, video) for cross-sector applicability (journalism, books, music, film, etc.) in decentralised and networked environments.
- Where does that come from? Leveraging emerging standards to establish the provenance and authenticity of content.
- Who did what? Using a new attribution mechanism to immutably bind authors' identities with content identification.
- Who owns what? Using verifiable credentials to register royalty splits.
- What may one do with what? Using natural language processing, rights languages, and other tools to translate narrated terms and conditions into machine-readable clauses, among other things, the expressions to opt-out from text and data mining.
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Discover the scenarios.
A registration of IP rights for the creative industries
Registering a creator ID and Open Rights Data Exchange account
Maria is a folk songwriter/performer in Portugal.
- Maria 1 requests her creator ID from DotMusic. DotMusic 2 issues her a verified creator ID (verifiable credential) which she 3 stores in her personal digital wallet.
- Maria then registers on the Open Rights Data Exchange by 4 presenting her creator ID.
- The Open Rights Data Exchange 5 verifies the authenticity of her credentials against the EBSI ledger and accepts her registration.
- On the Open Rights Data Exchange (ORDE), she is now 6 granted access to the registration application via her creator ID. An ORDE account is created.
Registering a recording on the Open Rights Data Exchange
As Maria is also the producer of her own recording, she holds the publishing rights to her song and the master rights to the recording. To register a recording, Maria uploads the recording on the ORDE which fingerprints it and immutably binds this content fingerprint with her creator ID.
- This binding is stored and 7 timestamped on EBSI.
Registering recording metadata
She then enters information on the ORDE about her work including industry codes, the members of her band, their roles and creator IDs, and the percentage of royalties which will be owed to them. Maria adds machine-readable terms and conditions for the use of her work, which can include the expression of her opt-out from text and data mining. This information is stored off-chain, either on a peer-to-peer network for public metadata or on a permissioned database for private metadata.
- After she registers her work, Maria is 8 issued a registration token by ORDE. The token is a construct that points to several verifiable credential information.
- Finally, she 9 presents her registration token to Broma16, a management organisation for rights and royalties. Broma16 can then 10 verify the token against the EBSI ledger and integrate it into her song portfolio.
Licensing neighbouring rights
Miguel is a documentary film director (SP) who wants to insert Portuguese folk music into his film. Miguel searches the Web and finds Maria’s intriguing recording.
- Tamara, the rights clearing manager at Mosaic Producciones Audiovisuales, Miguel’s production company, looks up the detailed registration of the recording on the ORDE, and 11 verifies the binding of the recording against the EBSI ledger. Whilst the creator information is queried from the public/private databases it is stored on. Tamara is then able to initiate the licensing process.
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