(NEW YORK, NY and BEAVERTON, OR April 9, 2019) dotBC, the company that is revolutionizing the rights clearance and tracking process for the music industry, announced today that it has partnered with Digimarc Corporation (NASDAQ: DMRC), 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. This collaboration will enable the industry to easily and accurately identify blockchain addresses and the most up to date rights ownership data through audio files delivered to digital service providers like Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Pandora and others.
“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 detail at the time of creation, providing an immutable connection between the audio and the always current ownership data,” said dotBC CEO Ken Umezaki. “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,” said Bruce Davis, CEO Digimarc Corporation. “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.”
Earlier this year, dotBC and Digimarc gave the industry a preview of their technology by enhancing songs for an EP from singer/songwriter Anya Maria. The process for working with dotBlockchain and Digimarc’s technology is turnkey. First, metadata, including writer, co-writer, publisher, recording information, and other data is provided by the client (artist, label or publisher) and stored in an immutable ledger. A URL is created to display the public-facing information that has been recorded on the blockchain. The audio file is then encoded to link with the URL before delivery to online stores. In Anya’s case, as she is an independent artist, this demonstrates she can now ensure all streaming services and other licensees can easily track comprehensive ownership and attribution data, thereby ensuring she is getting all of the royalties she is owed across any digital use.
dotBC’s blockchain implementation is a foundation for music and media rights expression into the works themselves. It creates a fair and transparent method for music composers, artists, publishers and rights holders to express their rights and wishes for commercializing their art into a modern and interoperable file format.
In the coming months, dotBC expects to introduce this watermarking functionality to the wider industry as one component of a suite of services available to rights holders that secure the link between the audio track and the metadata. The company has previously announced industry partners FUGA, SOCAN, MediaNet and Songtrust.
Dot Blockchain Media: DotBC is a U.S.-based corporation, which seeks to modernize media rights management by creating an open system with blockchain technology and a file container to dynamically “wrap” rights information, media files, and metadata linked to a distributed database. Co-founded by industry veterans Ken Umezaki, Bill Wilson, Allen Bargfrede, and Chris Tse with offices in New York, London, Los Angeles and Portland, the company’s focus is on building a media rights ecosystem that provides better information to both businesses and creators about rights ownership, faster payments, and greater transparency. For more information on dotBC, please visit www.dotblockchainmedia.com.
About Digimarc Digimarc Corporation (NASDAQ: DMRC) is a pioneer in the automatic identification of everyday objects such as product packaging and virtually any media, including print, images and audio. Based on the patented Intuitive Computing Platform (ICP™), Digimarc provides innovative and comprehensive automatic recognition technologies to simplify search, and transform information discovery through unparalleled reliability, efficiency and security. Digimarc has a global patent portfolio, which includes over 1,100 granted and pending patents. These innovations include state-of-the-art identification technology, Digimarc Barcode, as well as Digimarc Discover® software for barcode scanning, image recognition, and more. Digimarc is based in Beaverton, Oregon, with technologies deployed by major retailers and consumer brands, global banks, U.S. states, film companies and professional sports franchises, among others. Visit digimarc.com and follow us @digimarc to learn more about The Barcode of Everything®.
dotBC Press Contact:
John Vlautin
jv@spinlab.net
Digimarc Press Contact:
Gary Grossman, Edelman PR
503-471-6868
pr@digimarc.com
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