COALA IP: a blockchain-ready Intellectual property licensing protocol - BigchainDB & IPDB Meetup #2 - Jan 04, 2017
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COALA IP is a blockchain-ready IP licensing protocol developed by the COALA IP working group to create an open, interoperable, and extensible standard for intellectual property rights management. The protocol aims to leverage existing technologies like blockchain and IPFS to create an auditable system for tracking IP ownership and licensing. It uses a directed graph data model with JSON objects linked via IPLD and Merkle trees to represent things like authors, creations, manifestations, licenses, and ownership transfers in a way that is blockchain-agnostic and can be queried across ledgers. The working group has published a whitepaper and is working on a reference implementation to establish COALA IP as a community-driven open standard.
![Extensible & future-proof
{
"@context": {"rdf": "http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#",
"schema": "http://schema.org/"},
“@graph”: [{"@id": "<coalaip placeholder>/Manifestation",
"@type": "rdf:Property",
"schema:rangeIncludes": {"@id": "schema:CreativeWork"}}
]
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![RightAssignment / “Blockchain-Transfer”
{
"@context": { "/": "<hash pointing to COALA IP's context>" },
"@type": "RightsTransferAction",
"transferContract": [
{ "/": "<hash pointing to a file on e.g. IPFS>" },
{ "@value": "<Contract text>" }
]
}](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/20160104-coalaip30mintalk-170109145825/85/COALA-IP-a-blockchain-ready-Intellectual-property-licensing-protocol-BigchainDB-IPDB-Meetup-2-Jan-04-2017-33-320.jpg)
COALA IP: a blockchain-ready Intellectual property licensing protocol - BigchainDB & IPDB Meetup #2 - Jan 04, 2017
- 1. COALA Intellectual Property A blockchain-ready IP licensing protocol
- 2. Tim Daubenschütz @TimDaub [email protected] Blockchain IP Self-Sovereignty
- 6. Submitted 70200 samples in a single song to GEMA 1 sample = 1 GEMA form ⇒ 70200 forms delivered Johannes Kreidler, “product placements” (2008)
- 8. 2015: COALA group forms, meets 3-4 times a year Fall 2015: COALA IP group forms Fall 2016: Release of first draft COALA IP whitepaper Present: Working on reference implementation
- 10. Icons made by Madebyoliver, freepik, Nice and Serious, Zlatko Najdenovski Author
- 11. Icons made by Madebyoliver, freepik, Nice and Serious, Zlatko Najdenovski Author Creation
- 12. Icons made by Madebyoliver, freepik, Nice and Serious, Zlatko Najdenovski Author Creation Manifestation
- 13. Icons made by Madebyoliver, freepik, Nice and Serious, Zlatko Najdenovski Author Creation Manifestation License
- 14. Icons made by Madebyoliver, freepik, Nice and Serious, Zlatko Najdenovski Author Creation Manifestation License Distribution
- 15. COALA IP Icons made by Madebyoliver, freepik, Nice and Serious Attribution & Provenance Licensing Distribution Verification
- 16. Goals ● Interoperable ● Extensible & future-proof ● Auditable ⇒ Leverage existing technologies as powerful baseline
- 17. Interoperable
- 20. = URI-linking of JSON objects { "@type": { "/": "<IPLD hash to RDF-Schema of Creation>" }, "name”: “32 Campbell’s Soup Cans”, “author”: { "/": "/ipdb/QmfMLNLyJZgv...y2oqP68Nd2PLhudmK" } }
- 21. Blockchain-agnostic querying Merkle tree implemented into JSON >> ipld.resolve('/ipfs/QmfMLNLyJZgv...y2oqLhudmK/author') >> {“givenNamen”: “Andy”, “familyName”: “Warhol”} = Merkle-linking of JSON obj.
- 22. = Cross ledger-transfers payment = {"destinationAccount": "ethereum.pubnet.alice", "destinationAmount": '1337', "destinationMemo": { "right": "/ipdb/QmfMLNLyJZgv...y2oqP68Nd2PLhudmK" }, “executionCondition”: 'cc:0:3:47DEQpj8HBSa-_TImW-5JCeuQeRkm5NM...uFU:0', “expiresAt”: (new Date(Date.now() + 10000)).toISOString()} quote = client.quote(...) client.sendQuotedPayment(quote, payment)
- 24. Extensible & future-proof { "@context": {"rdf": "http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#", "schema": "http://schema.org/"}, “@graph”: [{"@id": "<coalaip placeholder>/Manifestation", "@type": "rdf:Property", "schema:rangeIncludes": {"@id": "schema:CreativeWork"}} ] }
- 25. Party / “Author” { "@type": { "/": "<hash pointing to RDF-Schema of Individual>" }, "givenName”: “Andy”, “familyName”: “Warhol”, “birthDate”: “1928-08-06”, “deathDate”: “1987-02-22” // and any other arbitrary meta data // TDB: Let’s use an established identity protocol here } Icons made by Madebyoliver, freepik, Nice and Serious, Zlatko Najdenovski
- 26. Creation { "@type": { "/": "<hash pointing to RDF-Schema of Creation>" }, "name”: “Lord of the Rings”, “author”: { "/": "<hash pointing to the Author>" } } Icons made by Madebyoliver, freepik, Nice and Serious, Zlatko Najdenovski
- 27. Manifestation { "@type": { "/": "<hash pointing to Schema of Manifestation>" }, "name": "The Fellowship of the Ring", "creation": { "/": "<hash pointing to the Creation>" }, "digital_work": { "/": "<hash pointing to a media blob>" }, "locationCreated": "<URI pointing to a Place object>" } Icons made by Madebyoliver, freepik, Nice and Serious, Zlatko Najdenovski
- 28. DigitalFingerprint { "@context": { "/": "<hash pointing to COALA IP's context>" }, "@type": "DigitalFingerprint", "fingerprintOf": "<hash pointing to a media blob>", "fingerprint": "Qmbs2DxMBraF3U8F7vLAarGmZaSFry3vVY5zytuN3BxwaY" } Icons made by Madebyoliver, freepik, Nice and Serious, Zlatko Najdenovski
- 29. Icon made by Madebyoliver
- 30. Right / ”License” { "@type": { "/": "<hash pointing to RDF-Schema of Right>" }, “usages”: “all|copy|play|stream|...”, “territory”: { “/”: “<hash pointing to a Place>” }, “context”: “inflight|inpublic|commercialuse…”, “exclusive”: true|false, ... "manifestation": { "/": "<hash pointing to the Manifestation>" }, "license": { "/": "<link/hash pointing to the License>" } } Icons made by Madebyoliver, freepik, Nice and Serious, Zlatko Najdenovski
- 31. Right / ”License” { "@type": { "/": "<hash pointing to RDF-Schema of Right>" }, “usages”: “all|copy|play|stream|...”, “territory”: { “/”: “<hash pointing to a Place>” }, “context”: “inflight|inpublic|commercialuse…”, “exclusive”: true|false, ... "manifestation": { "/": "<hash pointing to the Manifestation>" }, "license": "https://www.ascribe.io/terms#transferring+editions" } Icons made by Madebyoliver, freepik, Nice and Serious, Zlatko Najdenovski
- 33. RightAssignment / “Blockchain-Transfer” { "@context": { "/": "<hash pointing to COALA IP's context>" }, "@type": "RightsTransferAction", "transferContract": [ { "/": "<hash pointing to a file on e.g. IPFS>" }, { "@value": "<Contract text>" } ] }
- 34. (J.K Rowling) Icons made by Madebyoliver, freepik, Nice and Serious, Zlatko Najdenovski
- 36. Auditable
- 37. Auditable Author: “Andy Warhol” Creation: “32 Campbell’s Soup Cans” Manifestation: “32 Campbell’s Soup Cans” Poster Right: License Manifestation under License “X” Creation: “The Scream” manifestation creationauthor author
- 38. Auditable Author: “Andy Warhol” Creation: “32 Campbell’s Soup Cans” Manifestation: “32 Campbell’s Soup Cans” Poster Right: License Manifestation under License “X” Organization: “MoMA, NYC” Creation: “The Scream” Assertion: “Correct!” author manifestation creationauthor author toAssert
- 39. Auditable Author: “Andy Warhol” Creation: “32 Campbell’s Soup Cans” Manifestation: “32 Campbell’s Soup Cans” Poster Right: License Manifestation under License “X” Organization: “MoMA, NYC” Creation: “The Scream” Assertion: “Incorrect!”Assertion: “Correct!” author author toAsserttoAssert manifestation creationauthor author
- 40. Challenges
- 41. Directed graph: unreachable nodes? Discovery? Icons made by Madebyoliver, freepik, Nice and Serious, Zlatko Najdenovski
- 42. Directed graph: unreachable nodes? ● Graph search algorithms ● BlockchainQL ● External indices Icons made by Madebyoliver, freepik, Nice and Serious, Zlatko Najdenovski
- 43. Interledger: Only fungible assets = ≠
- 45. The missing link: identity
- 46. “Principles of self-sovereign identity” ● Existence: Connect “I” with its aspects ● Control: User is in full control, always ● Access: User has full access, always ● Transparency: “Systems are FOSS” ● Persistence: ID is long-lived ● Portability: USA ⇔ Canada ● Interoperability: Many systems, one standard ● Consent: User agrees to usage of data ● Minimalization: Data disclosure is minimal ● Protection: User’s rights must be protected
- 47. Summary
- 48. COALA IP Icons made by Madebyoliver, freepik, Nice and Serious Attribution & Provenance Licensing Distribution Verification ● Community-driven data models ● branch-specific data ● open IP protocol of license transactions ● Web of Trust
- 49. coalaip.org coalaip/specification (CC Attribution 4.0) bigchaindb/py-coalaip (Apache 2.0) bigchaindb/pycoalaip-bi gchaindb (Apache 2.0) ipdb.foundation
- 50. Thanks for your attention! Interested? Contact me: [email protected] or @TimDaub