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> digital art certification Interesting. So you have an original piece of digital art and the owner of the art is verified on the blockchain? How would that wo

> digital art certification Interesting. So you have an original piece of digital art and the owner of the art is verified on the blockchain? How would that work? Can't I just take a screenshot or something of the art and have a copy? What's the advantage of having one "true" piece of digital art and is it feasable? Genuinely curious how this would work. It's a very intriguing idea.

ThomPete 9y ago
I went to Ars Electronica in Linz years back (highly recommended) one of the big discussions that year was digital art and how it could be sold (and things like do you pay for a software upgrade) The "problem" with digital art is that if you get a hold of the source code you could just reproduce it and "double spend" and thus it has diminishing value. If you use the blockchain to verify you have the original you make it possible for the value to follow the owner. Same thing with ebooks. You could be buying the version of a book that Eminem owned and it could increase in value. Many people misunderstand what value can be. Sometimes it's the actual "thing" (ex. the chair) but often, very often, it's the idea of the thing. The whole art scene is based on this principle.
- allodoxia_bleak 9y ago
  https://www.verisart.com/about https://www.verisart.com/about "Verisart is the world's leading platform to certify and verify artworks and collectibles using the Bitcoin blockchain. Since its launch in 2015, Verisart has provided contemporary artists including Shepard Fairey with a free and easy way to generate permanent certificates of authenticity and reduce the scope for fraudulent activity. Verisart combines museum certification standards, distributed ledger technology and image recognition to its provenance and registry services. The company is headed by Robert Norton, formerly CEO & co-founder of Saatchi Online & Sedition Art and its Board Advisers include Peter Todd, Bitcoin core developer and Dr. Ahmed Elgammal, Professor of the Art & Artificial Intelligence Lab at Rutgers University."
  - ThomPete 9y ago
    Yup. Some very interesting things going on in that field. My wife is in the art auction business.
theoh 9y ago
Not certification of digital art, digital certification of art. Some people are excited about this. It is just a DRM thing, transfer of rights, records of provenance etc. Makes sense if you think of art as an asset, which is kind of a philistine thing to do...
- ThomPete 9y ago
  You are right it can also be used for digital certification of art but I actually did mean digital certification of digital art.

ThomPete 9y ago

I went to Ars Electronica in Linz years back (highly recommended) one of the big discussions that year was digital art and how it could be sold (and things like do you pay for a software upgrade) The "problem" with digital art is that if you get a hold of the source code you could just reproduce it and "double spend" and thus it has diminishing value. If you use the blockchain to verify you have the original you make it possible for the value to follow the owner. Same thing with ebooks. You could be buying the version of a book that Eminem owned and it could increase in value. Many people misunderstand what value can be. Sometimes it's the actual "thing" (ex. the chair) but often, very often, it's the idea of the thing. The whole art scene is based on this principle.

allodoxia_bleak 9y ago
https://www.verisart.com/about https://www.verisart.com/about "Verisart is the world's leading platform to certify and verify artworks and collectibles using the Bitcoin blockchain. Since its launch in 2015, Verisart has provided contemporary artists including Shepard Fairey with a free and easy way to generate permanent certificates of authenticity and reduce the scope for fraudulent activity. Verisart combines museum certification standards, distributed ledger technology and image recognition to its provenance and registry services. The company is headed by Robert Norton, formerly CEO & co-founder of Saatchi Online & Sedition Art and its Board Advisers include Peter Todd, Bitcoin core developer and Dr. Ahmed Elgammal, Professor of the Art & Artificial Intelligence Lab at Rutgers University."
- ThomPete 9y ago
  Yup. Some very interesting things going on in that field. My wife is in the art auction business.

theoh 9y ago

Not certification of digital art, digital certification of art. Some people are excited about this. It is just a DRM thing, transfer of rights, records of provenance etc. Makes sense if you think of art as an asset, which is kind of a philistine thing to do...

ThomPete 9y ago
You are right it can also be used for digital certification of art but I actually did mean digital certification of digital art.