China’s internet courts are stepping up their use of blockchain to protect writers and creative content creators. This has mainly been beneficial to authors who publish their works online and have faced problems in safeguarding their legal rights owing to the difficulty in collecting evidence.
Blockchain is solving this evidentiary issue for content creators in Hangzhou, the capital of China’s Zhejiang province. Writers upload their literary works or articles to a blockchain-based database, which automatically generates a string or electronic ID for the content.
The blockchain stores related data such as the time, location and identity of the content creator, Wang Jiangqiao, executive vice president of the Hangzhou Internet Court told Xinhua, China’s state press agency. As data on the blockchain is protected by cryptography, it becomes easier for copyright owners to protect their work from piracy.
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