Month: July 2017

Proportionate content compensation

Proportionate content compensation by Olaf Weicker In the content realm, proportional compensation models are customary, especially for music. Parts of the revenue go to the provider, e.g. Spotify, the label and last but not least the band / singer, the composer, the song writer etc. However, for the different forms of exploitation like live concerts, […]

First Dev Release Prototype Developer Libraries

Prototype Developer Libraries The proof-of-concept developer library for ISCC creation which is used as backend for the demo web application is available at https://github.com/coblo/pyiscclib. A large part of our efforts was to test the viability of our concept. We created a separate benchmarking repository for that. We also made progress in simplifying the implementation eliminating any external dependencies. […]

Interview with Digital Publishing Report

The Potential of Blockchain Technology for the Media Industry An interview with Sebastian Posth This interview by Steffen Meier first appeared in German language in No. 11/2017 of Steffen Meier’s digital publishing report. Original title: “Building Blocks for the Content Community. Blockchain und Verlage”. Introduction Blockchain is a future-oriented technology as well as a hype, in […]

Exploding costs of storing data on a Blockchain

Exploding Costs of storing information on a Blockchain Important note: This article uses approximations with regards to volatile data or values that are difficult to determine. Please see notes for extended information on why and how we chose certain examples and calculated prices. Storing information on a blockchain, in addition to the mere transaction data, could […]

ISCC Benchmarking

ISCC-Benchmarking by Patricia Schinke In this post, we give a quick summary of the tests that we ran up to now during the development of the ISCC. Each component of the ISCC shall have its proper round of test runs in order to ensure a smoothly working concept at the end of the development phase. […]

Extended capabilities of the ISCC

Extended capabilities of the ISCC The ISCC is not only suited to unambiguously identify complete works, but can also be easily used to unambiguously reference parts of a work. For example, let’s take a news article consisting of 500 words and three images. In addition to the most obvious use case, i. e., the creation […]