Solution

As there are more and more ways to express creativity, publish works, and claim authorship through decentralized mediums and platforms on the internet, a globally recognized model does not exist. While corporate mainstream possibilities exist under major recording businesses and labels where copyright can be claimed, this does not represent independent artists well. Independent publishers can still claim authorship and ownership of materials, but the process is often expensive and difficult to prove without an overseer.

As a result, there are often problems in claiming and proving originality in works. In order to meet the demands of existing copyright claims, and provide ownership and authorship rights, a verification process that deploys blockchain technology and issues certificates on the blockchain is the desired solution provided by POCRE. Identifying all the parties involved in the process and appeasing all the ownership and creative works by each contributor is a central component of our blockchain system.

The adoption of blockchain in the field of copyright is not new even if not globally adopted. For example, Algorand is adopted by SIAE (the official Italian copyright collecting agency) to store the copyright as a “simple” immutable record store of the author in the "traditional" way. However, co-creation ownership, real-time claiming and litigation processes are not managed.

POCRE is innovative in the process but also only possible because internally implemented on a novel layer 2 solution adopting Cardano HYDRA. In POCRE the transition data (claiming and litigation) are immutable but not permanent. Only at the end of the N possible transitions (for N coauthors) the final block, containing all the elected co-authors, is permanently and immutably stored on the layer 1 chain.

Based on the usage and adoption, currently, there appear to be no barriers to scalability thanks to HYDRA. POCRE is fully decentralized and on-chain thanks to "Star-Shaped Head Network" a new protocol of Hydra. Because of that, there is no need for third-party custodianship.

When comparing it to other similar style products where authors are offered recognition for their work inside a centralized platform that can guarantee and validate recognition only inside itself - POCRE goes beyond traditional mechanisms by using a global blockchain.