US-based rights management firm dotBC has partnered with Digimarc Corporation to provide Digimarc Barcode for Audio, an advanced digital audio watermarking technology, within the dotBC offering.
This solution will connect the metadata and rights ownership information supplied by artists, songwriters and rights holders to the audio file itself.
DotBC seeks to modernize media rights management by creating an open system with blockchain technology and a file container to “wrap” rights information, media files, and metadata linked to a distributed database.
Digimarc Corporation is a pioneer in the automatic identification of everyday objects such as product packaging and virtually any media, including print, images and audio.
“The addition of Digimarc’s technology to our robust suite of opt-in services and solutions provides the music industry with a powerful and diverse range of choices for audio identification integrated with the blockchain.”
Ken Umezaki, dotBC
Ken Umezaki, CEO of dotBC, said: “We are really excited to announce this partnership with Digimarc.
“This partnership enables all music industry businesses, independent creators and unsigned artists globally, to incorporate the ability to tag their audio with ownership details at the time of creation, providing an immutable connection between the audio and the always current ownership data.
“The addition of Digimarc’s technology to our robust suite of opt-in services and solutions provides the music industry with a powerful and diverse range of choices for audio identification integrated with the blockchain.”
”dotBC combined with Digimarc Barcode for Audio provides a reliable and effective rights management solution for the music industry.”
Bruce Davis, Digimarc
Bruce Davis, CEO Digimarc Corporation, added: ”dotBC combined with Digimarc Barcode for Audio provides a reliable and effective rights management solution for the music industry.
“The partnership between our companies showcases the power of Digimarc Barcode for Audio combined with blockchain, to ensure that rights ownership is properly and securely associated with copyrighted content.”Music Business Worldwide