Blockrights - A platform for managing and protecting digital content rights using blockchain technology

TRON Hackathon Hackathon Season 7
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Project Name: blockrights
Project Track: Web3
Team Name: Blockrights
Team Member(s): Albert Mends
DevPost Project Link: Blockrights | Devpost
Project Demo Link: https://blockrights.netlify.app/
Project Demo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMsbAookqEw

Project Goal:
Blockrights is a blockchain-powered platform designed to revolutionize digital rights management. Built on the BitTorrent Chain (BTTC), it offers a comprehensive solution for content creators and AI companies to securely register, license, and track the usage of digital assets. The platform features a user-friendly dashboard for content management, smart contract-based licensing, AI usage tracking, and automated royalty distribution. By leveraging blockchain technology, Blockrights ensures transparent and immutable record-keeping of content ownership and usage rights. The project integrates modern web technologies like Next.js and React with blockchain infrastructure, providing a seamless experience for users while addressing critical challenges in digital content protection and fair compensation in the AI era. With its smart contract deployed on the BTTC testnet, Blockrights demonstrates a practical application of blockchain technology in solving real-world problems in the digital content industry.
Project Value:
Integrating Blockrights with blockchain technology, specifically the BitTorrent Chain (BTTC), offers several significant benefits and demonstrates the relevance of decentralized solutions in digital rights management:

Immutable and Transparent Record-Keeping: By leveraging blockchain technology, Blockrights provides an immutable and transparent ledger for content registration. This ensures that ownership claims and creation timestamps cannot be altered or disputed, offering creators a robust proof of authorship. The transparency of the blockchain also allows for easy verification of content authenticity and ownership claims, building trust in the platform and its users.

Decentralized Rights Management: The use of smart contracts on BTTC enables a decentralized approach to managing digital rights. This eliminates the need for centralized authorities and reduces the risk of single points of failure. Smart contracts automate licensing processes, ensuring that licensing terms are clear, enforceable, and cannot be manipulated without consensus. This decentralization also enhances the security of the platform, as there’s no central database that can be compromised.

Automated and Transparent Royalty Distribution: Blockchain-based smart contracts allow for automated and transparent royalty payments. This ensures that creators receive fair compensation for their work without intermediaries, reducing transaction costs and increasing efficiency. The transparency of blockchain transactions also provides a clear audit trail for all financial interactions on the platform.

Enhanced Security and Cryptographic Foundations: The cryptographic foundations of blockchain technology provide a high level of security for storing and managing sensitive information related to digital rights and content ownership. This is particularly crucial in an era where digital assets are increasingly valuable and vulnerable to unauthorized use or theft.

Global Accessibility and Interoperability: By building on a blockchain platform like BTTC, Blockrights enables global access to the platform, allowing creators and users worldwide to participate in the digital rights ecosystem without geographical restrictions. Furthermore, this blockchain integration opens up possibilities for interoperability with other blockchain-based systems and services, potentially expanding the platform’s ecosystem and functionality.

Efficient AI Usage Tracking: The immutable nature of blockchain transactions allows for reliable tracking of how AI systems use registered content. This provides accountability and helps prevent unauthorized use of copyrighted material in AI training, addressing a growing concern in the digital age.

Cost-Effective Transactions: BTTC offers low-cost transactions compared to some other blockchain networks, making it more accessible for frequent operations like content registration and licensing. This is particularly beneficial for individual creators and small businesses who may be deterred by high transaction costs on other networks.

By integrating with BTTC, Blockrights leverages these blockchain benefits to create a more secure, transparent, and efficient digital rights management system. This integration addresses key challenges in content protection and fair compensation in the digital age, demonstrating the practical application of blockchain technology in solving real-world problems in the creative industries.
Project Website: https://blockrights.netlify.app/
Project Details: Blockrights is a platform that leverages blockchain technology to revolutionize digital rights management. Built on the BitTorrent Chain (BTTC), it offers a comprehensive solution for content creators and AI companies to securely register, license, and track the usage of digital assets. The platform features a user-friendly dashboard for content management, smart contract-based licensing, AI usage tracking, and automated royalty distribution.

By leveraging blockchain technology, Blockrights ensures transparent and immutable record-keeping of content ownership and usage rights. The project integrates modern web technologies like Next.js and React with blockchain infrastructure, providing a seamless experience for users while addressing critical challenges in digital content protection and fair compensation in the AI era.

Key features of Blockrights include secure content registration on the blockchain, creation and management of custom licenses through smart contracts, monitoring and verification of AI usage of registered content, and automated royalty distribution systems. The platform caters to both individual creators and AI companies, facilitating a balanced ecosystem for content creation and usage.

The project’s tech stack comprises TypeScript, Next.js, and React for the frontend, with TailwindCSS for styling and Framer Motion for animations. The backend utilizes Next.js API routes and Drizzle ORM for database interactions. On the blockchain side, Blockrights employs Ethereum-compatible technologies, including OpenZeppelin for smart contract development and Hardhat for testing and deployment.

Blockrights has deployed a smart contract on the BTTC testnet, demonstrating a practical application of blockchain technology in solving real-world problems in the digital content industry. The project aims to create a more secure, transparent, and efficient digital rights management system, addressing key challenges in content protection and fair compensation in the digital age.
Smart Contract links: Contract Address 0xE3705927c585e58BBd0F29d2a02E5d158C679832 | BTTCScan

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Welcome to this amazing session.
Your project Blockrights is not just a platform, it’s a revolution which empowers creators fosters trust and ensures fair compensation in the digital age.
Truly Blockrights deserves a standing ovation.
Keep up the great work

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Welcome to Grand hackathon S7
So if I may understand you clearly your platform provides tools for content creators and help them to grow right?

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Welcome to the Hackathon of season 7, I have read everything and it is very wonderful because we all know that AI is the future, please tell me how are you going to track the AI usage of content to avoid any problem with copyright, thank you

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Yes, that’s right! Our platform gives content creators the tools they need to protect, manage, and grow their digital work. Using blockchain technology, we help with copyright protection, automated licensing, and royalty tracking, so creators stay in control of how their content is used and monetized. Plus, we make sure AI apps can’t use their data without permission, keeping their work safe and ensuring they get fairly compensated. This way, creators can focus on what they do best, while we handle the rest and help them reach a bigger audience.

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Thank you for your question

Our platform uses blockchain to ensure every piece of content is tracked and recorded. When creators upload their work, it’s given a unique digital fingerprint that’s stored on the blockchain. This helps keep a transparent and tamper-proof record of who owns the content and how it’s being used.

When it comes to AI usage, we rely on smart contracts to set permissions. Creators can decide how their content can be used by AI systems whether that’s through licensing fees or certain restrictions. If an AI app tries to use the content without proper permissions, we track it automatically on the blockchain, so creators can take action if needed.

This way, we’re not only protecting content but giving creators full control over how their work is used, especially by AI.

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So as it stands would creators pay/subscribe to make use of those tools or is it absolutely free ?

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Its absolutely free for now.

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Please I have some few questions that needs the clarity of Blockrights.

  • What way will Blockrights motivate content creators in particular the newbies in Blockchain.

  • Will there be users friendly tutorial and resources that will explain Blockchain ideas and the benefits of using Blockrights.

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What are the major pain points for content creators and AI companies that Blockrights aims to solve?

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Welcome to hackaTron S7. I have read your project and imo, it’s a good approach to protecting the right of content ownership. Thank you for building this solution for content creators. But for protecting the right of content ownership, there is the need to ensure that the content being protected belongs to the creator. Can you now tell us how you plan to ensure that digital assets registered on the platform are properly verified for ownership before being licensed?

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Blockrights motivates content creators, especially newbies, by offering a simple, secure way to register and protect their work while ensuring fair, automated royalty payments through smart contracts. The platform provides a user-friendly interface for easy content management and licensing. Additionally, Blockrights will include tutorials and resources that explain blockchain concepts and highlight the benefits of using the platform.

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  • Content Ownership Protection: Creators often struggle to prove ownership of their work, and Blockrights addresses this by providing an immutable blockchain-based record for secure content registration and proof of authorship.
  • Fair Compensation and Royalties: Many creators face challenges in receiving fair and transparent royalty payments, which Blockrights solves through automated royalty distribution via smart contracts, eliminating intermediaries and delays.
  • Unauthorized Use of Content: AI companies often use copyrighted material without proper licensing or tracking. Blockrights tackles this by offering smart contract-based licensing and reliable tracking of content usage in AI training or development, ensuring accountability.
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Thank you for your feedback! While we currently don’t have a verification system in place, creators will need to provide essential details such as timestamps and proof of creation during registration to verify ownership of their digital assets on Blockrights. We’ll also incorporate decentralized identity checks to confirm their identity. Additionally, we plan to collaborate with trusted third-party services to ensure that the content is original and rightfully belongs to the creator before it is licensed.

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@albertmends
Wow :astonished: this is indeed amazing, and thanks for your quick response and enlightenment.
Kudos to you and your team members

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Great to know that it’s absolutely but if that is the case how would you generate revenues to maintain your platform?

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Okay! Your response is clear. By requiring timestamps, proof of creation, and decentralized identity checks, you are taking major steps to ensure the ownership of the contents. Can you give insight on how the collaboration with third-party services will work in verifying content originality?

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Great question! Blockrights will generate revenue through a few key methods. We plan to charge a small transaction fee for each content registration, licensing agreement, and royalty distribution handled by the platform. Additionally, we’ll offer premium features such as advanced analytics, enhanced security options, and personalized content management tools that users can subscribe to. By combining these revenue streams, we’ll ensure the platform is sustainable while keeping it accessible to all creators.

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Thank you! Our collaboration with third-party services will focus on leveraging specialized tools for verifying content originality. These services will scan registered digital assets, checking them against databases of existing works to ensure there’s no duplication or infringement. For example, we’ll integrate platforms that use AI to detect plagiarism or unauthorized copies across the web and digital libraries. By doing this, we’ll add an extra layer of security to ensure that the content is truly original and owned by the creator before licensing it on Blockrights.

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Welcome to Season 7, finally a solution for inclusion and exclusivity of right to material for content creators, this totally solves the critical challenges of digital content rights management, particularly in the context of AI-driven industries where content use is often difficult to track and compensate fairly.
Will you offer incentives like reduced fees or token-based rewards to encourage early adoption and boost user engagement?