Blockchain technology for cultural and creative industries

How cultural and creative EU industries could benefit from new
technologies like blockchain?

Blockchain holds enormous potential to break down barriers that could lead to more efficiency, greater accountability, lower costs and increased remuneration for artists.

Apart from the benefits of enhanced transparency, disintermediation, new channels of sales and engagement with NFT – non fungible tokens, we have invented the notion of useowners so that all users that use the creation automatically turn out to be co-owners, aiming at unprecedented levels of value creation, value protection, and engagement.

For the useowners opportunity, blockchain is key.

Benefits and creative economy

And here follows several excerpts dated from 2017 published by the World Economic Forum. In the creative economy, blockchain can redefine how artists are remunerated by acting as a platform for creators of intellectual property to receive value for their work.

A common complaint lodged by artists is that, as performance-rights organizations and new intermediaries such as YouTube and Spotify increasingly insert themselves into the value chain between artists and their audiences, artists receive smaller cuts of revenue and have less say over how their creative works are priced, shared or advertised.
For example, on Spotify it would take between 120 to 170 streams for rights holders to receive their first penny. “People end up doing it without paying or not doing it at all”.

The value of content

Creative content can be mispriced. By tracking the demand for creative content, pricing could be more dynamic. Prices for creative content could fluctuate according to supply and demand. Moreover, artists could control prices and have the ability to set prices themselves without having to go through a complex web of intermediaries.

Once this value is created, there are means to Value Preservation.

Finally, the new trend of engagement with consumers, through blockchain, the tokenization of the creations, for new sales channels and enhanced loyalty by means of NFT (Non fungible-tokens).

We advocate for a new management of intellectual property and rights, and engagement, through the usowners: the users are co-owners of the creations, an active part in its governance, provenance, genuinity and protection.

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