Copyright

Originality

When a user mints an NFT, he/she first uploads the digital content and signs a transaction on-chain to associate his wallet address with the content hash. This proves that the NFT minter is also the owner/author of the digital content. However, what it doesn’t do is that it does not proves that the digital content is original. There could be a case that the uploaded digital work is a duplicate of the work of others.

In the case that there is a dispute of copyright on the digital content, the RADIAN infrastructure will flag the content as disputed and will require applications that subscribe to the flag takes down the content. Of course, it is at the discretion of the application itself to take it down or not. Any tokens received from the transaction of the disputed digital content will be given to the disputer if he/she is proven to be the true owner. We are planning to resolve the authorship disputes decentralizely, through jury voting as part of the Governance Roadmap.

Copyright

In RADIAN, an uploader of the content will be asked to optionally include 1) a declaration that he/she is the genuine author of the digital content, 2) a declaration that he/she transfers none, part of, or the full copyright of the digital content to whoever owns the NFT on the blockchain. As most people may not realize, owning an NFT may not grant them the full copyright to the NFT content. The copyright terms will be much more clear if the author includes a declaration of share of the copyright.

Moreover, when the user creates a profile, he/she will be required to sign a permission for other applications on the RADIAN infrastructure to display as is and monetize the digital content. The signature will be in the form of an EIP712 signature with Metamask. This will guarantee that content created on RADIAN will be accessible by all members within the Ecosystem, which is a basic requirement for joining this ecosystem.