There's already a crude-type bot on steemit that tries to detect text content and images to notify curators/voters, but in a more classical way of analysis. I think more indepth ways like this, certainly have a future.

Well come to steemit.
I live in Japan. 
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Mind blown! This deserves support by all in the community! Not only voting for the creator with steem but also exposing fraudulent users who plagiarize others content. Another layer to guarantee great content

What would happen if someone photoshopped a picture already on the web? would it be able to detect the original content or attribute the photoshopped image to a new the user that posted it? Could you potentially have models where when you moused over parts it would tell you what the clothing was instead of tagging each individual article of clothing. I would wonder how specific a content would have to be and how something like girl talk (a mix of multiple songs in short clips mixed together) would appear. I love the idea and you are going to make some businesses incredibly wealthy along with yourself. It's brilliant

okay it looks pretty good , Upvote now
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One of my concerns for Steemit's future stems from the requirement that images = links. These links are most often to copyrighted content, sometimes to stock photos. It's one thing when a blogger uses your images on a not for direct profit post... Quite another when that image is part of blog content that makes more money than most books. 

There's no way to sue the Blockchain, but Steemit could encounter Pirate Bay type issues with server hosting. And since the Blockchain is transparent, rights holders could track the movement of Steem to Bitcoin to exchange to bank, and identify the unauthorized user. 

I like your idea since it includes rights holders in the income stream, and keeps users accountable for their decisions to use other people's content. The main difficulty I see is that for any content held by a corporation, you're talking about dealing with sclerotic institutions whose first reaction to "Hey, we found a way for you to monetize what's now piracy" will be to sue and or issue take down notices and or sue the founders personally... 

That said, this is a great step in the right direction when it comes to fairness to original content creators who are now not sharing in the wealth being created partially by piggy backing on their content.

Great post, I think this is a powerful tool, any devs know how hard it would be to actually implement ? I would imagine pretty damn hard. Cheetah bot is a step in the right direction. Images are probably a bit tougher.

I am excited all the time when I discovering a new usage scenario for blockchain. Mediachain sounds awesome. I will keep that in mind.

Well that was the first problem i thought about the day i joined steem.
Hopefully there`s a practicable solution.

Just letting you know @jessewalden, I referenced this article in my latest piece here:
https://steemit.com/ethics/@condra/copyright-doing-the-right-thing-will-it-pay-off
Best of luck

One of the blockchain use cases is to validate ownership of music, articles, images, etc.  I like where you're going with allowing authors and artist to be paid in STEEM for their work.

Fantastic!

Great article!
I'm a motion graphics artist and currently trying to come up with a cool GUI design for a video / portfolio Steemit channel for creative digital artists. 
Mediachain will really help me in my quest to get more professional creative artists to migrate their content to Steemit. Keeping original content and intellectual property adequately recognised is so important . Also, this directly ties in to what I mentioned in an article I posted yesterday, where I mentioned that if it's of any value to me then it most definitely should generate value for you. 
All the images or videos I have used in my blogs are content that I created. I have paid for licensing the music I use on any of my videos.

Credibility is very important!

Wow! This is a great concept, I think Mediachain would be perfect for Steemit, as someone who has had their work stolen on and off Steemit, I would love to see this.

At the moment on Steemit, there is a bot called Cheetah, and it can detect duplicated content and posts a warning in the reply.

However with Mediachain, maybe there could be a visible tag, over the thumbnail, which would make it clear that the content wasn't original, perhaps it could be colour coded, to reflect exactly how much of the material has been copied.

I think it's especially good for images, I use images that I see all over the place and it's impossible to know where they originated from. As a former photographer, when someone used my image, I didn't mind as long as I got a credit.

Very interesting; what's the timeline on it?

Cheers
*CG*

can you pull the image or file of the original off the blockchain? otherwise how could you prove?

Welcome to Steemit.  Mediachain looks like a fantastic application of blockchain tech.

are you storing the actual original files for this?

i wish the foundin father could put thi up for debate

welcome @jessewalden 

nice project, keep it up!

Yes, it looks good!

This would be creative destruction lol
I like this idea !
The same goes for original works perhaps a "Turn it in" style of verification? @jessewalden

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I've seen this type of technology calling out someone elses blog post that was not their content. It did an automatic reply and referenced where the original article was from. Was that You?

Interesting idea.

This could be an awesome feature in Steem . It would minimized violation of copyright and intellectual property right. Contents must be original and to incentivize an article with other people's content is not cool.

Its a great idea, however the only true ownership of something is to TradeMark it. Someone saying they own something and being able to prove it is another case. Anyone can say they own what is going viral, but what would the process be to prove they are the real owner. I see a possibility of many class action suites in the courts. If you can find a way or even if there was a Digital signature on the product in question, then there might be more Validity. For now you have an excellent idea and I hope you work out the kinks and are able to get it going.

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I think this is a very important issue at the moment! , @jessewalden

[Aquí](https://steemit.com/mediachain/@mondeja/que-esta-haciendo-steemit-por-el-verdadero-creador-de-una-imagen-o-un-articulo) está traducido el artículo a español.

I think this Voting for cash and blogging for mining, is an great consept. Ithink this could, be an realy great journey, and i realy like to join in for this great social media platform.

I think this is a great consept, but i think it is maby would be hard to realize. But i hope you figure it out, couse it is an good uppcoming.

good post you
https://steemit.com/news/@putradham/agate-pictorial-nyi-roro-kidul-a-rp-5-billion-from-indonesia

Welcome to the Steemit community. I have added you to my list of people to follow and I hope that you will do the same.

I have created a blog here as well and would like to ask if you would contribute some of your knowledge to the community and perhaps answer a question or two.

I was attracted to your article because this is so needed in the community.  What a brilliant project MediaChain is.  Way to keep them honest!

By any means. Here is the link to my blog:
https://steemit.com/@question-answers

Thank you in advance for answering a few questions! Your answers really assist the community.

Very true indeed man . stay original .
Check my culture pre- wedding photoshoot mate ;) .
https://steemit.com/photography/@rainchen/borneo-dayak-traditional-custome-head-hunter-tribe-pre-wedding-photoshoot

In history, there is often a dispute according to the authorship of certain things - for example invention of radio (some would say it was Marconi, the others would claim it was Tesla or Braun). The Mediachain protocol gives us a chance to end that kind of dispute (at least on Internet) and show the real  author of particular creation to the wider audience.