System and method for authorising the presentation of a digital asset

A method of authorising the presentation of a digital asset stored on a digital asset server comprising the steps of:

• transmitting, upon authorisation, at a digital asset presentation device, a digital asset data request via a data communication network to a ledger distributed across multiple computing devices and storing data relating to the digital asset including the storage location of the digital asset on the digital asset server, said digital asset data request including a unique pointer for locating the data relating to the digital asset stored on the ledger;
• receiving, at the digital asset presentation device, digital asset data from the ledger via the data communication network, said digital asset data including the storage location of the digital asset on the digital asset server;
• transmitting, at the digital asset presentation device, a digital asset request to the digital asset server via the data communication network, said digital asset request including the storage location of the digital asset on the digital asset server;
• receiving, at the digital asset server, the digital asset request and initiating an operation to obtain authorisation from a controller of the digital asset to serve the digital asset;
• upon authorisation, transmitting, at the digital asset server, the digital asset to the digital asset presentation device via the data communication network;
• receiving, at the digital asset presentation device, the digital asset from the digital asset server;
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• rendering, at the digital asset presentation device, the digital asset for presentation purposes;
• wherein the transmission of the digital asset data request, at the digital asset presentation device, is authorised by a first signed authorisation message transmitted by an authorisation device, the first signed authorisation message being signed by an authorisation private key of an authorisation key pair stored on the authorisation device and controlled by a controller of the digital asset;
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• wherein the transmission of the digital asset, at the digital asset server, is authorised by a second signed authorisation message transmitted by the authorisation device, the second signed authorisation message being signed by a digital asset private key of a digital asset key pair stored on the authorisation device and associated with the digital asset and controlled by the controller of the digital asset.