Identifying copyrighted material using copyright information embedded in electronic files

A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium storing one or more instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations for embedding copyright information in one or more pages for presenting digital content, the operations comprising:

• generating, by the computing device, a unique identifier (ID) based on copyright information associated with the digital content, wherein the copyright information and the digital content are recorded on a blockchain of a blockchain network, and wherein the copyright information associated with the digital content includes one or more of at least a portion of the digital content or identity information of a copyright holder of the digital content,
• and wherein the digital content is recorded on the blockchain as a first transaction associated with a first blockchain transaction ID and the identity information is associated with a second transaction associated with a second blockchain transaction ID, and wherein the first blockchain transaction ID or the second blockchain transaction ID is associated with one or more transaction records associated with the digital content;
• identifying, by the computing device, one or more visual attributes associated with a page design of one or more blank pages of an electronic file;
• embedding, by the computing device, the unique ID in the one or more blank pages by changing the one or more visual attributes to be representative of the unique ID, wherein the embedding produces one or more unique ID-embedded pages that each enables retrieval of the copyright information from the blockchain based on the unique ID, and wherein a difference between the one or more blank pages and the one or more unique ID-embedded pages is not apparent to an unaided human eye;
• allocating, by the computing device, the digital content to at least one of the one or more unique ID-embedded pages, to produce one or more unique ID-embedded pages allocated with the digital content;
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• distributing, by the computing device, the one or more unique ID-embedded pages allocated with the digital content to the blockchain network.

A computer-implemented system, comprising:

• one or more computers;
• and
• one or more computer memory devices interoperably coupled with the one or more computers and having tangible, non-transitory, machine-readable media storing one or more instructions that, when executed by the one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to perform one or more operations for embedding copyright information in one or more pages for presenting digital content, the operations comprising:
• generating, by a computing device, a unique identifier (ID) based on copyright information associated with the digital content, wherein the copyright information and the digital content are recorded on a blockchain of a blockchain network, and wherein the copyright information associated with the digital content includes one or more of at least a portion of the digital content or identity information of a copyright holder of the digital content,
• and wherein the digital content is recorded on the blockchain as a first transaction associated with a first blockchain transaction ID and the identity information is associated with a second transaction associated with a second blockchain transaction ID, and wherein the first blockchain transaction ID or the second blockchain transaction ID is associated with one or more transaction records associated with the digital content;
• identifying, by the computing device, one or more visual attributes associated with a page design of one or more blank pages of an electronic file;
• embedding, by the computing device, the unique ID in the one or more blank pages by changing the one or more visual attributes to be representative of the unique ID, wherein the embedding produces one or more unique ID-embedded pages that each enables retrieval of the copyright information from the blockchain based on the unique ID, and wherein a difference between the one or more blank pages and the one or more unique ID-embedded pages is not apparent to an unaided human eye;
• allocating, by the computing device, the digital content to at least one of the one or more unique ID-embedded pages, to produce one or more unique ID-embedded pages allocated with the digital content;
• and
• distributing, by the computing device, the one or more unique ID-embedded pages allocated with the digital content to the blockchain network.