Or, at least, it will let you prove that they were stolen.
If youre a photographer, how do you prove an image is yours?
Its possible to register the image’s copyright, but that can be impractical.
Numbers Protocol
Instead,Capture uses blockchain technologyto identify your images, no matter how far and wide they are shared.
Could this stop copyright theft?
Its what allows digital currencies like Bitcoin to exist.
The new block also contains the encrypted identity of the previous block.
These link all the way back to the original, in a chain.
In the future, we may extend support to other trusted photo platforms.
This means that you cannot tamper with a block.
Or it’s possible for you to, but it is easy to spot.
Copyright For The People
Copyright is supposed to protect creators from theft and exploitation.
But in practice, copyright does almost nothing to help individual creators.
But for regular people, copyright is useless.
For instance, what do you do if a large fashion retail chain uses your design on a t-shirt?
Even if you could prove its your design, you probably dont want to start paying lawyers.
Thats where blockchain apps like Capture come in.
Capture
As far as this technology goes, Capture is more a proof-of-concept.
The app currently lets you take photos and then give them to others.
But blockchain tech has many other uses.
In the future, we may extend support to other trusted photo platforms.
Our technology uses various environmental sensors to capture metadata such as location, timestamp, etc, Wu continued.
Blockchain tech could also help to debunk reworked images shared on social media.
Services like Capture and KodakOne can prove authenticity, but will anybody care?
