Alibaba patented a music blockchain system.
Alibaba has patented a blockchain-based means of vetting the originality of songs.
Granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on April 21, the process as described by the Chinese e-commerce giant addresses one of the recording industry’s major issues — protecting the copyright of music tracks — by hosting and vetting that content on a blockchain.
One validation node and multiple music library nodes comprise the blockchain. The validation node performs “originality analysis” on a music track to evaluate how similar its tune, tempo and other factors such as lyrics and beat are to other tracks in the library.
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This data is published to the blockchain and summarized in a second vetting report that also includes a similarity ratio. Ultimately, the process yields a recommendation on the track’s originality from a plurality of nodes.
Alibaba claims this method of song vetting could help stymie copycats whose meddling with the files skirts existing copyright safeguards, including hash coding music files to prove their authenticity, by stealing the sound itself.
“Currently, there is still no platform that can be used to perform a similarity analysis on musical works to identify plagiarized or imitated” songs, Alibaba wrote. That hole is wide enough for copycats to conceivably exploit.
Blockchain-based originality analysis can “alleviate” the problem, Alibaba said. It also universalizes the solution, as music libraries from around the world can all act as distributed nodes.
Alibaba envisions smart contracts running the originality reports in one iteration.
“The smart contract is executed with less human intervention and advantageous decentralized authority, and fairness of the music originality analysis behavior is further improved,” it said.
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted Alibaba a patent for a system that solves one of the major problems of the recording industry — copyright protection for music tracks by posting and checking this content on the blockchain. Alibaba claims that this method of verifying songs will help prevent the efforts of people whose interference with music files violates existing copyright guarantees, including hashing music tracks to verify their authenticity.
“There is still no platform that could be used to analyze the similarity of musical works in order to identify plagiarism or imitation of songs,” writes Alibaba.
As the company notes, an analysis of the originality of blockchain-based music tracks can “partially solve” the problem. The system can be a universal solution, as music libraries from around the world can act as distributed nodes. Alibaba’s solution involves the use of smart contracts.
“A smart contract is carried out with less human intervention and has the advantages of decentralized power, and the reliability of analyzing the originality of musical composition with it increases,” Alibaba says.
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