Blockchain Rights Tokenization for AI Training Attribution
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current NFT technologies fail to effectively manage rights and royalties for creative works, particularly in the context of AI training, as they do not support the creation, buying, or selling of rights after the asset's creation, and lack a framework for different kinds of royalties for various uses of digital assets.
Innovation Solution
A rights management system utilizing a distributed virtual machine on a blockchain to issue and track rights tokens, which include usage rights for creative works, allowing creators to be compensated for their work through a tokenized representation of ownership, rights, and authenticity (ORA) framework, enabling decentralized markets for content rights and royalties.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional NFT technologies are used to represent creative works, then ownership can be established, but rights management and royalties for various uses cannot be effectively managed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the rights management system into distinct contractual layers: an ownership contract for establishing ownership and a rights contract for managing usage rights and royalties. This segmentation allows each contract to specialize in specific functions, improving rights management capability while maintaining manageable system complexity through modular architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a nested contract structure where the rights contract references and builds upon the ownership contract. The rights contract is activated only after ownership is established, creating a nested relationship where inner contractual layers depend on outer layers. This nesting enables comprehensive rights management while avoiding redundant complexity by leveraging the foundational ownership structure.
2Reliability
If a comprehensive rights management framework is implemented, then creator compensation for AI training and various uses can be ensured, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by establishing the ownership contract first, which creates the foundational structure and ownership record before the rights contract is activated. This preliminary establishment of ownership allows the subsequent rights management framework to build upon a solid foundation, ensuring reliable creator compensation while managing complexity through staged implementation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a rights management system that acts as an intermediary between creative works and usage scenarios. This intermediary framework automatically handles rights verification and compensation distribution, ensuring reliable creator compensation for AI training and various uses while managing the complexity of multi-party rights management through automated intermediary processes.
3Ease of manufacture
If NFT technologies are used without rights management, then implementation is simple, but the ability to create and trade rights after asset creation is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces dynamics to the static NFT framework by enabling the rights contract to be activated and modified after the initial ownership establishment. The rights contract can dynamically respond to different usage scenarios, allowing rights to be created, transferred, and managed adaptively after asset creation, thus maintaining implementation simplicity while gaining versatile rights trading capability.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for managing rights for creative work are provided. One aspect of the systems and methods includes receiving, at a rights contract on a distributed virtual machine operated based on a public blockchain, input data including an ownership token identifier for an ownership token, where the ownership token indicates ownership of a creative work. Another aspect of the systems and methods includes obtaining, at the rights contract, an indication of usage rights for the creative work corresponding to the ownership token. Yet another aspect of the systems and methods includes minting, via the rights contract, a rights token corresponding to the ownership token, where the rights token includes a reference to the indication of the usage rights for the creative work.