“Empowering the Visual Arts via Blockchain Remix Innovations” presented by Yecies, Yong, Shen, Fahmideh, Law, et al. …
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This panel contributes new scholarly research to current debates on intellectual property rights infringement in the digital sphere where visual art is created, bought, sold, and traded. Artists, scientists, technologists, policymakers, and scholars remain concerned about fakes, imitations, and the lack of trust and transparency in such global transactions. Through ongoing Australian Research Council Linkage Project work (LP210300009) – conducted in association with partnering change-makers such as the Australian Copyright Council, Copyright Agency, National Association for the Visual Arts, Australian Network for Art & Technology, and Common-wealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Data61, this panel shows how a range of digital artwork can be listed, securely traded, preserved, and remixed in previously unrecognized ways. Preliminary innovative blockchain solutions of the nature explored by our project team aim to authenticate, safeguard, and promote the work and livelihoods of creative industry practitioners and enterprises in cyber-secure ways. The hope is to challenge the rapid rise of fraud and unethical Artificial Intelligence-generated content in the wider copyright industries while encouraging the authorized remix of formerly inaccessible and future creative work.
