While I am working on the infrastructure needed to bring distributed video sharing to the mainstream, there is always one big shadow looming over everything – copyright.
While Steem is new to me, Internet, software development, crypto and distributed systems aren’t.
I’ve also had the chance to work for a short time with some of the Bulgarian creative producers, artists and promoters.
Here is my opinion about Steem and its road to mainstream.
If I am wrong – please correct me.
For the Steem ecosystem to flourish, we should embrace Steem's basic principles
Steem is a distributed, immutable system.
What does that mean?
It means that once you publish on Steem, you lose control of where your posts are hosted and who can see them. You could nominally hide them ( by posting an edit on the blockchain ), but you could not erase them. They will forever remain into the public internet subconsciousness.
If you can accept these stipulations, you could make money. Often more money than you could make from the same content If you monetize it through other means.
Steem is a place for high quality, original content. While you could post something that you’ve published before, doing that won’t get you the most of the system.
Remember, you should always cite the source !
A better way of doing things is to first publish on Steem. That gives you an undeniable, cryptographic proof of authorship and better revenue.
Than, you publish elsewhere. Don’t forget to link to your post on your chosen Steem access provider (be it steemit.com , busy.org, dtube.video, dsound.audio, or your own one ).
It’s the ultimate watermark, where most SEO will flow.
Of course, not every product in the creative space is appropriate for public dissemination. In that case you could announce it here and promote the ways the public reach it.
Think of the Steem accounts as channels.
Your blog on Steemit is your page on Facebook, your channel on Youtube, your project’s Twitter account.
If you’d like to be professional, you’d need several. As of now, they aren’t free. Creation costs a minimum of 6 Steem and you’ll likely need more Steem Power if you want your posts to have some weight.
Choice wisely when investing in the creation of a new channel ( account ). The quality of your feed matters. You could easily lose reputation that will cost time, money and hard work to recover.
I’ll stop here. This is my first post and I am new to Steem, so take this post with a grain of salt.
And don’t forget to share your opinion in the comments.
P.S. I’ve decided to post first and make it pretty and add some pictures in a later edit.
I think I waited enough.
You bring up some excellent points, particularly regarding the proof of ownership. Back in the pre-internet days a cheap way to do this was to put a physical copy of whatever into an envelope with the date and seal it in a way that couldn't be tampered with. That was, for obvious reasons, far from fail-proof.
That is the way most of our systems around intellectual property work.. and using them isn't cheap.
Patents and Trade Marks - you give your envelope to WIPO. They check if someone already patented the same thing. They should also check if your "discovery" is already made (and published ) by someone outside of the patent system.
The price of monopoly trough international patents starts from around 1000-2000 USD per patent, depending on the categories an jurisdictions that you target. The time from making a claim to getting the patent is in excess of a year.
The cheapest way to invalidate a patent is to prove in court that the same thing was already published by someone else. ( e.g. posted on Steem ? )
When publishing a book, you go through similar process - your envelope goes to your national library, you get an ISBN.
The procedure is not much different for music, video and software. You license them and then control through the distribution channels.
It will cost you money and time to use the international censure machine. After you become a part of it, its easy for you to target everyone that uses "your thing" without your consent.
In most cases you sell that consent for as much money as you could get.. or hammer your competition with it, when it makes sense.
You've already paid a hefty sum for the right to do just that.
The question then becomes, will an international office accept a Steemit post as proof as while it has a timestamped record of posting/existence, if the account itself has no associated identity validation (think an account with a moniker) that precedes the posting of the item in question, its ownership isn't clear. If they have a good lawyer, that's going to come up. Monikers that themselves aren't trademarked aren't readily attributable to a specific individual. It'll be interesting to see how an actual case is handled.
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