Season 1 Episode 6: Protecting your Intellectual Property with Jennifer Sanasie
Kamilah and Nova begin by talking about creators entering the Metaverse and Web 3 - but neglecting protecting their intellectual property.
How will blockchain and the new digital tools be protected?
Kamilah and Nova converse with Jennifer Sanasie, co-founder and CSO at the Rite Network – an NFT asset licensing network. She has a background in digital content, co-hosts The Hash - a show about crypto on Coindesk - and has created a lot of content (some of which has also been “borrowed” a time or two).
Building the technology to help creators with their ownership has been a major motivator for Jennifer.
Jennifer explains that NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are a “digital certificate of ownership” – rather than the media (creation) itself (photo, text, etc). NFTs can provide the holder with access to rewards, perks, and things to do both in the digital and physical world. Her expansive definition covers the digital and real-world application of NFTs.
The intellectual property (IP) problem began as a Web 2 problem – creators have always fought to protect their content. Web 3 offers tools that can help this issue by showing proof of ownership like NFTs that can help creators get due credit.
Nova, Kamilah, and Jennifer discuss licensing to give and gain access to content. Jennifer explains the boilerplate terms of the process. Rite Network is creating an affordable, easy, accessible platform for creators to set licensing terms to an NFT and help ensure people are acting on the given terms. They are also providing affordable arbitration to make a more accessible legal process.
Jennifer shares a couple of resources - ritenetwork.io and coindesk.com
Nova and Kamilah discuss how IP and all related to it can be an afterthought – but should not be ignored.
Kamilah shares that she is launching an accelerator program – impactaccelerator.global Nova shares her new project – Raine Drops – a new evolution of storytelling.
Crypto
Crypto for Creatives
Web 3.0
Intellectual property
Blockchain
NFTs
Licensing
Creators
Arbitration
Legal protection
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