Blockchain powered IP helps artists protect their digital creations

Ascribe helps artists register, transfer and track their digital work, and prove its authenticity through cryptographic certificates.

Germany14 Jul 2015
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Image ownership in the internet age is a slippery proposition, with creators previously relying heavily on their fellow web-users to respect their intellectual property. But now a German startup called Ascribe is enabling artists and writers to create unique, trackable, digital copies of their work and verify that it is the definitive version, theoretically protecting it from duplication or unlicensed use.

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