Blockchain Smart Contracts for Musical Rights Governance

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…
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Copytrack supports photographers against image theft

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…

How Blókur shortens the long, long wait to get paid as a musician

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…

Bloomen Hackathon winner: A platform to connect fans with artists, using Blockchain

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…

Bloomen Photo: Insight into the Future of Direct Photo Exchange

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…

Blockchain and Media: An Important Combination for Athens Technology Center (ATC)

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…

Kendraio App: A framework for dashboards and admin interfaces

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…

Why Crypto Currencies are a Valid Alternative in Emerging Markets

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…

MiPasa: Blockchain-company Hacera Collects Corona Data in Open Source Platform 

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.…
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How and why Teosto, the CMO of Finland, supports exchange of metadata of musical works

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…