This links to a scientific article published by the Bloomen Consortium in 2020: Abstract: Private and permissioned blockchains are conceptualized and mostly assembled for fulfilling corporations’ demands and needs in the context of their own premises. This paper presents a complete and sophisticated end-to-end permissioned blockchain application for governance and management of musical rights endorsed […]
This start-up has the technology to track unlicensed uses of images, worldwide. An interview with the founder of Copytrack. When photos are used without a license and without pay, there is not much the creator can do. To hire a lawyer for every case is not sustainable. Enter Copytrack, a company supporting photographers against image […]
The London based start-up provides a data hub to clear music rights faster. Much, much faster than today. For the fan music is all about emotion. The sound, the voice, the feelings. Millions of fans listen to the songs they love. Creating music is about emotion too: Multiple years of practising to be any good, […]
An interview with Bill Keleris. His winning entry “Music.book” showed how Blockchain can be used to connect fans directly with musicians – and it sparked some ideas about a world of music very different from today. Two of the five days of our Bloomen week event (May 25-29, 2020) were dedicated to a hackathon. The idea […]
A key question for the Bloomen Project was: “Can a complex technology like Blockchain improve content workflows in the media industry and support better compensation for creators?” From the perspective of Deutsche Welle (DW) as a media company we also asked: “Can Blockchain improve visual journalism and ensure fair and fast payment for photographers?” Results […]
Media is one of ATC’s engagement sectors. ATC has been a pioneer in providing tools for journalists and media agencies. The participation in the Bloomen project allowed ATC to expand its portfolio of offered services in the area of copyright management. This article summarises outcomes of the Bloomen project from the perspective of the company: […]
Can a complex technology like Blockchain improve content workflows in the media industry and support better compensation for creators? This was the main question the Bloomen Project aimed to answer. Kendraio approached the project with yet another question: How can we empower creatives to manage their assets and rights in an efficient way, so they […]
How you view a new currency, the benefits and the risks, depends mostly on how reliable the the banking and government is in your area. If it is very stable then crypto currencies do look a bit like the Wild West. If banks (and government) is very unreliable and unpretictable, then the switch to crypto […]
Collecting data is a multi-step process. Each step can be a challenge, not so much because of the volume of data, but because of the data structure. Only after multiple steps data can be cleaned, duplicates can be found and data points verified. A number of elements of this process can be enhanced by using […]
Teosto, the collective management organisation of Finland, finished the first phase of a project with Bloomen-partner Kendraio. The goal is to extend the usability of APIs for musical works and add user interfaces for data exchange. Reliable and updated data about musical works is the foundation for fair exchange across all stakeholders. Collective management organisations […]
