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US 12,008,083 B2Granted
Information processing apparatus, for storing consensus information among copyright holders in a blockchain
AssigneeSony Group Corporation
InventorKenichi Gokan
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information processing program configured to manage the copyright-related information of content appropriately. The information processing apparatus includes control circuitry to acquire, when there is a plurality of copyright holders relating to one piece of content, consensus information indicating an agreement on a share of respective copyrights of the plurality of copyright holders, and create a transaction for recording the acquired consensus information on a blockchain system.
Claims17
An information processing apparatus, comprising:
- control circuitry configured to
- acquire, when there is a plurality of copyright holders relating to one piece of content, copyright agreement information, which is electronic information separate from the one piece of content and indicating that an agreement on sharing respective copyrights of the plurality of copyright holders regarding the one piece of content has been reached;
- create a transaction for recording the acquired copyright agreement information on a blockchain system;
- transmit the created transaction to the blockchain system for registration on the blockchain system,
- wherein the control circuitry is further configured to create the transaction for recording copyright additive information on the blockchain system, the copyright additive information including content identification information identifying the one piece of content, share information indicating a respective agreed-upon percentage share of the copyright held by each of the plurality of copyright holders of the one piece of content, and the acquired copyright agreement information;
- and
- give a predetermined notification to the respective right holders of the copyright when a sum total of shares held by the respective right holders of the copyright exceeds a predetermined threshold.
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An information processing method, comprising:
- acquiring, when there is a plurality of copyright holders relating to one piece of content copyright agreement information, which is electronic information separate from the one piece of content and indicating that an agreement on sharing respective copyrights of the plurality of copyright holders regarding the one piece of content has been reached;
- creating a transaction for recording the acquired copyright agreement information on a blockchain system;
- transmitting the created transaction to the blockchain system for registration on the blockchain system,
- wherein the method further comprises creating the transaction for recording copyright additive information on the blockchain system, the copyright additive information including content identification information identifying the one piece of content, share information indicating a respective agreed-upon percentage share of the copyright held by each of the plurality of copyright holders of the one piece of content, and the acquired copyright agreement information;
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- giving a predetermined notification to the respective right holders of the copyright when a sum total of shares held by the respective right holders of the copyright exceeds a predetermined threshold.
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A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing an information processing program that, when executed by processing circuitry, causes the processing circuitry to execute a method comprising:
- acquiring, when there is a plurality of copyright holders relating to one piece of content, copyright agreement information, which is electronic information separate from the one piece of content indicating that an agreement on sharing respective copyrights of the plurality of copyright holders regarding the one piece of content has been reached;
- creating a transaction for recording the acquired copyright agreement information on a blockchain system;
- transmitting the created transaction to the blockchain system for registration on the blockchain system,
- wherein the method further comprises creating the transaction for recording copyright additive information on the blockchain system, the copyright additive information including content identification information identifying the one piece of content, share information indicating a respective agreed-upon percentage share of the copyright held by each of the plurality of copyright holders of the one piece of content, and the acquired copyright agreement information;
- and
- giving a predetermined notification to the respective right holders of the copyright when a sum total of shares held by the respective right holders of the copyright exceeds a predetermined threshold.
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