Enabling efficient verification in a DApp: The case of copyright management
The Interested Party Information (IPI) system uniquely identifies the rights holders worldwide, making it possible to know for each subject and at any time which rights are protected, by whom and for which territories. Currently, this service is provided in a centralized way but in 2021, the Italian...
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| author | Pierpaolo Della Monica Matteo Fedeli Cristina Salonico Andrea Vitaletti Marco Zecchini |
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| description | The Interested Party Information (IPI) system uniquely identifies the rights holders worldwide, making it possible to know for each subject and at any time which rights are protected, by whom and for which territories. Currently, this service is provided in a centralized way but in 2021, the Italian Society of Authors and Editors (SIAE) deployed a blockchain-based solution to completely decentralize this database to (a) provide greater guarantees to the rights holders as well as end users and (b) make a first tangible step in the path towards an all in-chain solution decentralizing a relevant component of the current architecture. This solution relied on early versions of Algorand smart contracts, delegating some off-chain verification to trusted third parties in many practical scenarios. Moreover, the Algorand technology has developed new tools, allowing us to design new techniques to reduce some of the trust assumptions of the original solution and enhance its efficiency at the same time. In this paper, we present the evolution of the solutions we designed to issue new on-chain non-conflicting rights representations, namely representations that are consistent with those already available on-chain. Our solution relies on smart contracts that have been implemented to run our experiments to prove (a) the feasibility of the proposed approach, (b) the scalability of the proposed solutions, and (c) the sustainability in terms of costs. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a69a83953fb94c45b75660955d4b8fde2025-08-20T03:42:15ZengElsevierBlockchain: Research and Applications2666-95362025-03-016110023410.1016/j.bcra.2024.100234Enabling efficient verification in a DApp: The case of copyright managementPierpaolo Della Monica0Matteo Fedeli1Cristina Salonico2Andrea Vitaletti3Marco Zecchini4Sapienza University of Rome, Rome 00185, ItalySocietà Italiana Autori Editori - SIAE, Rome 00144, ItalySocietà Italiana Autori Editori - SIAE, Rome 00144, ItalySapienza University of Rome, Rome 00185, ItalyUniversity of Salerno, Fisciano 84084, Italy; Corresponding author.The Interested Party Information (IPI) system uniquely identifies the rights holders worldwide, making it possible to know for each subject and at any time which rights are protected, by whom and for which territories. Currently, this service is provided in a centralized way but in 2021, the Italian Society of Authors and Editors (SIAE) deployed a blockchain-based solution to completely decentralize this database to (a) provide greater guarantees to the rights holders as well as end users and (b) make a first tangible step in the path towards an all in-chain solution decentralizing a relevant component of the current architecture. This solution relied on early versions of Algorand smart contracts, delegating some off-chain verification to trusted third parties in many practical scenarios. Moreover, the Algorand technology has developed new tools, allowing us to design new techniques to reduce some of the trust assumptions of the original solution and enhance its efficiency at the same time. In this paper, we present the evolution of the solutions we designed to issue new on-chain non-conflicting rights representations, namely representations that are consistent with those already available on-chain. Our solution relies on smart contracts that have been implemented to run our experiments to prove (a) the feasibility of the proposed approach, (b) the scalability of the proposed solutions, and (c) the sustainability in terms of costs.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2096720924000472Decentralized appCopyright managementBlockchain scalabilityReal-world application |
| spellingShingle | Pierpaolo Della Monica Matteo Fedeli Cristina Salonico Andrea Vitaletti Marco Zecchini Enabling efficient verification in a DApp: The case of copyright management Blockchain: Research and Applications Decentralized app Copyright management Blockchain scalability Real-world application |
| title | Enabling efficient verification in a DApp: The case of copyright management |
| title_full | Enabling efficient verification in a DApp: The case of copyright management |
| title_fullStr | Enabling efficient verification in a DApp: The case of copyright management |
| title_full_unstemmed | Enabling efficient verification in a DApp: The case of copyright management |
| title_short | Enabling efficient verification in a DApp: The case of copyright management |
| title_sort | enabling efficient verification in a dapp the case of copyright management |
| topic | Decentralized app Copyright management Blockchain scalability Real-world application |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2096720924000472 |
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