The Media and Entertainment Special Interest Group (ME-SIG) will bring together technical, academic, and industry-related expertise in order to solve long-standing problems in the creation, fair distribution, and legally appropriate attribution of media assets (film, television, e-books, audiobooks, hi-res gallery or museum images, photojournalism, games, e-sports, and so forth).
The group’s charter can be found here and all related contacts, together with a one-click subscription, are aggregated here.
MISSION and GOALS
The ME-SIG will use decentralized, permissioned HL blockchains to discuss and build user-friendly apps that respond to the relative disorder of permissonless environments, where artists’ interests are significantly harder to safeguard.
Following comparative analyses of the technical challenges (and hypothetical solutions) facing filmmakers, musicians, novelists, poets, photojournalists, etc., these DLT apps/dapps will be created for content-creators and their publishers, irrespective of location or socioeconomic status. This implies a focus upon UX/UI concerns over command-line tools, all in the name of access and inclusivity.
The desirability of/need for such goals was well expressed in July 2020 by Ashna Gupta: “Imagine this: a single platform where you can search for a song and uncover a record of every single player that has touched that song from inception to delivery. Every songwriter, producer, sound engineer, and everyone in between. Imagine a transparent revenue-sharing model that pays artists their fair share of royalties right away. Imagine a world of increased trustand accountability between artists and large media corporations.” The ME-SIG will aggregate and leverage the shared skills of HL members to make such hopes a reality.
In order construct a solution and maintain a healthy distance from theory, the following is proposed:
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Get Involved
This is an open group and anyone is welcomed to get involved. Good steps to take to contribute are:
- Subscribe to the mailing list & introduce yourself: Visit the Media & Entertainment SIG list and click 'Join This Group'
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- Dial-in to an upcoming meeting: The group holds regular meetings that you are welcome to join
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