Alibaba will help musicians protect their copyrights. All thanks to blockchain

Alibaba has patented a blockchain-based way to check the originality of music tracks. This is an important step in the fight against plagiarism. Alibaba wants to support [...] https://www.pinterest.com/pin/1085437947660215829/

Alibaba has patented a blockchain-based way to check the originality of music tracks. This is an important step in the fight against plagiarism. Alibaba wants to support musicians If the idea of the e-commerce giant is successful, it will solve one of the main problems of the recording industry. After all, it is about the protection of copyrights to musical works. How is it supposed to work? A node in the chain is to perform an "originality analysis" of the music track. The process involves assessing how similar a given melody, tempo and other elements of a song, such as lyrics, are to those of other compositions. This data will be published on the blockchain and summarized in a special report generated after verification. The latter is expected to include a similarity index. Eventually, the process is to end with a recommendation on the originality of the tracks in question, and thus of the song. Alibaba claims that this method of checking songs can help in securing copyrights. "Currently, there is still no platform that can be used to analyze the similarities of music tracks to identify plagiarism or imitations," - Alibaba noted. The company added that blockchain-based originality analysis could "alleviate" the whole problem. In a way, the idea "universalizes" the solution because music libraries from around the world can act as distributed nodes. The problem of plagiarism in music history The problem of plagiarism of musical works is much larger and has a much longer, unpleasant tradition than it may seem on the surface. One of the most famous songs in music history that is said to be plagiarized is Led Zeppelin's famous "Stairway to Heaven." What is it about? Here you have the original: And here the song "Spirit" by the group Taurus: In 2015, Michael Skidmore, the guardian of the estate rights of the late Spirit guitarist Randy California, who died in 1997, filed a famous lawsuit alleging plagiarism by Led Zeppelin. According to the accuser, the song "Stairway to Heaven" is said to contain a riff copied from "Taurus". The above you can judge for yourself. In any case, it is real, because Led Zeppelin began recording the famous ballad in December 1970. In the late 1960s both bands performed during one show, where theoretically Zeppelin could have heard the theme from "Taurus". In the age of blockchain, the matter could be quickly clarified.... Tags Blockchain music plagiarism