Chinese internet search giant Baidu has launched a digital image property rights management platform based on Blockchain, the company announced Wednesday, April 11.
The service, called Totem, timestamps each submitted original image with a real-time identity and other user data, storing it on a traceable and immutable Blockchain.
According to the Baidu's announcement, the company's existing artificial intelligence capacities - including image analysis and semantic understanding - will feed into the construction of unique image tags, with the underlying Blockchain system allowing circulating images to be traced, reproduced, and monitored in order to substantiate or refute allegations of copyright infringement.
Baidu announced that traditional stock photo services - including Getty Images partner, Visual China Group - have already moved onto the platform.
The company has not clarified whether the Blockchain it is using for Totem is public or permission-based.
Baidu's Totem comes hot on the trail of Kodak's own image rights management Blockchain platform, announced in Jan. 2018.
It similarly uses a digital ledger to establish rights ownership, and also offers a KODAKCoin token for the online photo community to pay for and receive dividends on their image licenses.
Kodak's stock doubled in value following the announcement of its Blockchain platform and ICO, but launch of the coin was delayed as the company followed SEC dictates requiring it to evaluate the financial status of US-based potential investors.
'China's Google' Baidu Launches Blockchain-Based Image Rights Protection Platform
Published on Apr 12, 2018
by Cointele | Published on Coinage
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