Content Authentication System with Unique Identifier Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing systems fail to authenticate and track copyrighted content on the internet, leading to unlawful republishing and unauthorized revenue distribution, where websites and advertising companies profit without compensating the original authors.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that generates a unique identifier for submitted content, authenticates its ownership, tracks its presence across networks, and distributes advertisement revenue to the rightful owners based on authorized usage, using a computing system with authentication, monitoring, and distribution modules.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If advertisements are placed on websites with copyrighted content, then revenue is generated for the website and advertising company, but the original author does not receive compensation
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary authentication of content ownership by embedding unique identifiers in content before it is published online. This advance identification mechanism ensures that when advertisements are placed on websites containing the content, the original author can be automatically identified and compensated, resolving the issue of uncompensated usage while maintaining revenue generation
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a feedback mechanism where usage data of copyrighted content is continuously monitored and fed back to the distribution system. This feedback loop enables automatic calculation and distribution of revenue shares to content authors based on actual usage metrics, ensuring they receive compensation proportional to the value their content generates through advertising
2Reliability
If copyrighted content is tracked across the network, then unauthorized usage can be detected, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of tracking the entire copyrighted content across the network, the system creates and tracks simplified copies in the form of unique identifiers (digital fingerprints or watermarks). These lightweight copies enable reliable detection of unauthorized usage without requiring complex analysis of the full content, thus maintaining content protection while reducing system complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary component - a distributed network of monitoring agents and a central authentication server - that handles the tracking function. These intermediaries work together to detect content usage across the network, distributing the computational burden and simplifying the overall system architecture while maintaining reliable content protection
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AI summary
A method including receiving, by a processor of a computing system, a submission from a user, authenticating, by the processor, the submission received from the user with a unique identifier of the submission, tracking, by the processor, the unique identifier to detect a presence of the submission, determining, by the processor, whether the presence is authorized, and distributing, by the processor, a portion of proceeds to the user if the presence is authorized is provided. Furthermore, an associated computer program product and computer system is also provided.