KR20230020461A - Method and system for managing contents based on block chain - Google Patents

Abstract

A method of managing works provided by a first terminal participating in a blockchain network, which is performed by a server participating in the blockchain network and providing a specific service according to an embodiment of the present invention may include the steps of: receiving identity authentication information based on the decentralized identity (DID) of a blockchain from the first terminal; verifying the received identity authentication information of the first terminal on the blockchain network; and creating a work block for an uploaded work and transmitting the work block to the blockchain network when the work is uploaded from the first terminal and it is determined that the uploaded work is not similar to other works.

Description

Blockchain-based copyright management method and system {METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING CONTENTS BASED ON BLOCK CHAIN}

The present invention relates to blockchain-based management of copyrighted works, and more particularly, to a method for managing registration, protection, distribution, etc. of copyrighted works in connection with a specific service as well as the registered copyrighted works themselves using blockchain technology and a system therefor.

Currently, creations are protected by copyright, but for this, creations must be directly registered with an authorized institution such as the Korea Copyright Commission in order to receive protection or to exercise the rights to one's creations.

However, in the case of ordinary people who are not workers in a specific field, the level of understanding of copyrights and procedures such as registration is not high, so accessibility to related services is low.

On the other hand, blockchain is an irreversible data distribution processing technology in which all users participating in the network distribute and store the data of all the same objects to be managed so that no changes can be made. Therefore, blockchain technology that jointly manages data is being used in various fields. If blockchain technology is used, even if one node is hacked, it can be detected through information shared with other nodes, so forgery and alteration of information is practically impossible and security can be improved.

Therefore, it is necessary to utilize the characteristics of these blockchains for management such as registration and protection of copyrighted works.

An object of the present invention is to provide a management method and system, such as registration and protection of works registered using block chain technology.

Another task of the present invention is to provide a management method and system for registering, protecting, and distributing copyrighted works in connection with a specific service.

The technical problems to be achieved in the present invention are not limited to the above technical problems, and other technical problems not mentioned will be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the description below.

According to one embodiment of the present invention A method for managing copyrighted works provided by a first terminal participating in a blockchain network and performed by a server that participates in a blockchain network and provides a specific service is ) Receiving authentication information based on; verifying the received authentication information of the first terminal on the blockchain network; And if the work is uploaded from the first terminal and it is determined that the uploaded work is not similar to other works, generating a work block for the uploaded work and transmitting it on the blockchain network.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the identity authentication information may include a distributed ID issued by an issuing authority after initial identity verification.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, when a copyrighted work is uploaded from the second terminal, it may further include determining whether the copyrighted work block of the first terminal transmitted to the blockchain network is similar to the copyrighted work.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, if it is determined that the uploaded copyrighted work of the second terminal is not similar to the copyrighted work of the copyrighted work block of the first terminal transmitted to the blockchain network, for the copyrighted work of the second terminal, the copyrighted block It may further include generating and transmitting on the blockchain network.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, if it is determined that the uploaded work of the second terminal is similar to the work of the work block of the first terminal transmitted to the blockchain network, transmitting guide data to the second terminal may further include.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, generating a work use block for the use of the work of the second terminal and transmitting it on the blockchain network may be further included.

Works management system according to an embodiment of the present invention, a first terminal that participates in a blockchain network and uploads a work; And a server participating in the blockchain network, providing a specific service, and managing a copyrighted work uploaded by the first terminal, wherein the server includes a principal based on a decentralized IDentity (DID) of the blockchain from the first terminal. The authentication information is received and the received authentication information of the first terminal is verified on the blockchain network, and if the work is uploaded from the first terminal and the uploaded work is not similar to other works, the uploaded work A work block for can be created and transmitted on the blockchain network.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the identity authentication information may include a distributed ID issued by an issuing authority after initial identity verification.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, a second terminal for uploading a work; further including, but the server may determine whether the work block of the first terminal transmitted to the blockchain network is similar to the work.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, the server determines that the uploaded copyrighted work of the second terminal is not similar to the copyrighted work of the first terminal's copyrighted work block transmitted to the blockchain network, the copyrighted work of the second terminal A work block can be created and transmitted on the blockchain network.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, the server, when it is determined that the uploaded work of the second terminal is similar to the work of the work block of the first terminal transmitted to the blockchain network, guide data to the second terminal can transmit.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, the server may generate a work use block for the use of the work of the second terminal and transmit it on the blockchain network.

According to the present invention as described above, the effects described below can be obtained. However, effects obtainable through the present invention are not limited thereto.

First, there is an effect of providing a management method and system such as registration and protection of registered works using block chain technology.

Second, there is an effect of providing management methods and systems such as registration, protection, and distribution of copyrighted works in connection with specific services.

1 is a diagram illustrating a block chain-based copyright management system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a diagram showing the configuration of a server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a diagram illustrating a user authentication method using block chain technology according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a flowchart illustrating a block chain-based copyright management method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a diagram illustrating a method for managing copyrighted works in a service provided by a server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a flowchart illustrating a method for managing copyrighted works in the process of using the service of FIG. 5 .

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. The detailed description set forth below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings is intended to describe exemplary embodiments of the present invention and is not intended to represent the only embodiments in which the present invention may be practiced.

Like reference numerals in each figure indicate like elements. Various changes may be made to the embodiments described below. The embodiments described below are not intended to be limiting on the embodiments, and should be understood to include all modifications, equivalents or substitutes thereto.

Terms used in the examples are used only to describe specific examples, and are not intended to limit the examples. Singular expressions include plural expressions unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. In this specification, terms such as "include" or "have" are intended to designate that there is a feature, number, operation, operation, component, part, or combination thereof described in the specification, but one or more other characteristics It should be understood that it does not preclude the possibility of existence or addition of numbers, operations, operations, components, parts, or combinations thereof.

Unless defined otherwise, all terms used herein, including technical or scientific terms, have the same meaning as commonly understood by a person of ordinary skill in the art to which the embodiment belongs. Terms such as those defined in commonly used dictionaries should be interpreted as having a meaning consistent with the meaning in the context of the related art, and unless explicitly defined in the present application, they should not be interpreted in an ideal or excessively formal meaning. don't

In addition, in the description with reference to the accompanying drawings, the same reference numerals are given to the same components regardless of reference numerals, and overlapping descriptions thereof will be omitted. In describing the embodiment, if it is determined that a detailed description of a related known technology may unnecessarily obscure the gist of the embodiment, the detailed description will be omitted.

In this specification, various embodiments of blockchain-based copyright management according to the present invention are disclosed. These embodiments can be used, in particular, for management of registration, protection, distribution, etc. of copyrighted works in connection with specific services as well as the copyrighted works themselves registered using blockchain technology.

Hereinafter, in this specification, "management of works" may include all registration, maintenance, modification, etc. of created works. Therefore, in the case of only managing and naming copyrighted works in the specification, the meaning may be determined by the context.

On the other hand, "work" can broadly encompass intellectual and cultural creations created by creators, that is, authors, as well as creative works defined by relevant laws. For example, a novel, poem, thesis, lecture, script, music, play, dance, painting, calligraphy, design, sculpture, craft, architecture, photograph, image, figure, computer program, composition, film, dance, drawing , maps, etc. However, in the following description, an image (photograph) is used as an example to help understanding of the present invention and for convenience of description, but it is not limited thereto.

1 is a diagram illustrating a block chain-based copyright management system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a diagram showing the configuration of a server 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a diagram for explaining a user authentication method using block chain technology according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a block chain-based copyright management method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a blockchain-based copyright management system according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a server and a plurality of terminals forming a blockchain network.

Data communication may be performed between various entities in the blockchain-based copyright management system 10 through a wired/wireless network (not shown). Wired/wireless networks may use standard communication technologies and/or protocols.

A terminal is a kind of node that forms a blockchain network, and can upload and register works to the server. Such a terminal may be a fixed terminal such as a PC or TV or a mobile terminal such as a smart phone.

The server may also be one node forming a blockchain network, and may be a computing device that performs a registration operation on the original work uploaded by the terminal. Such a server may perform a copyright management function according to the present invention by including a memory and a processor, in particular, the processor will be described later in FIG. 2 . In the above, the registration of the work by the server, for the author who has subscribed to the service provided by the server, when the work created by the author is uploaded, the registration of the author's name, the date of writing, the point of publication of the work, and copyright property rights It may include at least one of the registration of changes in rights, such as use, change, correction, and cancellation of Depending on the embodiment, the registration of copyrighted works by the server may be different from the meaning of copyright registration performed by the Korea Copyright Commission, which is usually commissioned by a government agency.

The server may provide information on an application or web service related to the service as well as contents of its own copyright management service to terminals forming a blockchain network, or induce access thereto.

According to the embodiment, the server performs an authentication procedure for the terminal user, that is, the author, according to the decentralized identity (DID) technology of the block chain, and, based on the result of the authentication procedure, a procedure such as membership registration of a service provided by the server. can be performed.

Referring to FIG. 3, the identity authentication procedure through the DID technology of the blockchain according to the present invention will be briefly described. After the initial identity verification, the issuing authority 30 issues a distributed ID to the terminal 20, and transmits the issuance information to the blockchain. It can be distributed and stored in the network 100. When the terminal 20 submits the distributed ID issued by the issuing authority 30 to the server 10, the server 10 verifies the distributed ID submitted by the terminal 20 through the blockchain network 100. , the identity verification process for the author can be performed. The server 10 may allow membership subscription to the service provided by the server 10 only for the distributed ID verified through the identity authentication procedure, that is, the author.

Depending on the embodiment, the server 10 may provide services related to management, such as registration and protection of copyrighted works, in the course of activity in the service of authors whose membership is permitted after the verification process described above.

Depending on the embodiment, the server 10 may perform a registration procedure for the author's work after determining the degree of similarity through comparative analysis with other registered works, such as reproduction, prior to initial registration of the work.

Depending on the embodiment, the server 10 provides a guide for the content that occurs when using the copyrighted work after determining the similarity through comparative analysis with other registered copyrighted works such as random copying and illegal copying when using the member's copyrighted work. can provide information.

Depending on the embodiment, the copyright management service by the server 10 may be automatically performed.

In FIG. 2 , a configuration block diagram of the server 10 is shown.

Referring to FIG. 2, the server 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a communication unit 210, a data receiving unit 220, an identity authentication processing unit 230, a similarity determining unit 240, and a blockchain processing unit 250. ), a control unit 260, and the like.

The communication unit 210 supports a communication interface environment for supporting data communication with nodes of a blockchain network.

As shown in FIG. 3 from the author terminal 20, which is one of the nodes of the blockchain network, the data receiving unit 220 receives the distributed ID issued by the issuing authority in relation to identity authentication or from the author terminal 20. It is possible to receive copyright management data such as registration or use of copyrighted works.

The identity authentication processing unit 230 may receive the distributed ID of the author terminal 20 through the data receiving unit 220 and verify the distributed ID of the author terminal 20 received on the blockchain network.

The similarity determination unit 240 may perform a determination of similarity with other works in the case of registering the work of the author terminal 20 or using the work.

Depending on the embodiment, other works may include works that have been previously registered by the server 10 as works or are in the process of being registered (or uploaded) before registration or before registration and use of the works by the author terminal 20.

Depending on the embodiment, the similarity determination unit 240 may perform a similarity determination process only for works previously registered by the server 10 or works being used in a service provided by the server 10 as other works.

According to the embodiment, if the server 10 uploads a work from the author terminal 20 that has subscribed to the service provided by the server 10 after the above-described distributed ID verification, the author terminal 20 without a separate request. ) can automatically perform the copyright registration process. In this process, the server 10 may perform similarity comparison analysis of the uploaded work with other works through the similarity determining unit 240 .

According to the embodiment, the server 10 automatically registers works (similarity determination) for all works uploaded from the author terminal 20 that has subscribed to the service provided by the server 10 after the aforementioned distributed ID verification. process) can be performed.

According to the embodiment, the server 10 automatically registers works only for specific works among all works uploaded from the author terminal 20 that has subscribed to the service provided by the server 10 after the aforementioned distributed ID verification. (including similarity judgment process) can be performed. Here, the specific work may include a work for which copyright registration has been requested by the author terminal 20, a work corresponding to a specific format or a specific category set in advance. The specific format may include formats such as text, image, video, and audio. A specific category refers to a category specified by a user or a category selected by the server 10, such as a location-based category such as school or travel destination, a content-based category such as daily life or sports activity, etc. Time, day of the week, season, etc.) may be included.

Depending on the embodiment, the similarity determining unit 240 determines the degree of similarity between a copyrighted work and another copyrighted work, all of the copyrighted work (eg, a photo) or all of the partial (eg, the copyrighted work crops the other copyrighted work). (crop), etc.) can be judged. In this regard, the similarity determination algorithm used by the similarity determination unit 240 is different depending on the type of work, etc., and may refer to a known technology used for similarity determination according to the type of work.

Depending on the embodiment, the similarity determination unit 240 may use BitDNA technology, which is used to determine the similarity of works by extracting specific elements of works and storing them in a blockchain network.

Depending on the embodiment, the similarity determination unit 240 defines at least one feature in the work registered by the author's selection or the server 10, and stores the defined feature in the blockchain network to determine the similarity. can be utilized For example, if the work is text, the title of the text, key keywords, etc. can be defined as characteristics, and if the work is an image, a region of interest (ROI) selected in the image or extracted from the ROI An object, a core object among extracted objects, etc. may be defined as characteristics. By doing this, the similarity determination unit 240 can reduce resource consumption and perform rapid similarity determination. If the above process is defined as the first similarity determination, the similarity determination unit 240 determines the detailed similarity with a separate target work (other works) only for the works for which the similarity is equal to or higher than the threshold as a result of the first similarity determination (e.g., in the case of an image). pixel unit, etc.) (secondary similarity determination) may be performed.

The blockchain processing unit 250 may be in charge of blockchain processing used or necessary in the management process of a copyrighted work by the server 10, such as registration of a copyrighted work or use of another author's work, according to the judgment result of the similarity determining unit 240. .

The control unit 260 may be in charge of overall control for management of blockchain-based works according to the present invention, including control of components within the server 10 .

Referring to Figure 4, a copyright management method according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described as follows.

4 mainly describes the operation of the server, where the server 10 participates in the blockchain network 100 and can provide a specific service. Here, the specific service may be a social media service as shown in FIG. 5 as an example. The server 10 may manage works provided by the author terminal 20 participating in the blockchain network.

The server 10 may receive identity authentication information from the author terminal 20 (S101). Depending on the embodiment, the identity authentication information may include a distributed ID issued from the issuing authority 30 based on the blockchain DID, as shown in FIG. 3 .

The server 10 may verify the received authentication information of the author terminal 20 on the blockchain network (S102).

The server 10 determines whether the work is uploaded by the author terminal 20 (S103).

When a work is uploaded from the author terminal 20, the server 10 may determine whether the uploaded work is similar to another work (S104). Depending on the embodiment, the other works may also include works previously registered as works or loaded into the company by the author terminal 20 . Depending on the embodiment, the meaning of similarity may include the same meaning, and the range of similarity may be arbitrarily set by the user or the server 10 .

Depending on the embodiment, the determination of whether the uploaded work of the author terminal 20 is similar to other works may refer to the foregoing in FIGS. 1 and 2 .

The server 10, as a result of the determination in step S104, when it is determined that the uploaded work of the author terminal 20 is not similar to other works, a work block for the work uploaded by the author terminal 20 is generated, It can be transmitted to the blockchain network (S105).

Depending on the embodiment, the server 10, as a result of the determination in step S104, when it is determined that the uploaded work of the author terminal 20 is similar to other works, it may be processed as in steps S204 to S205 of FIG. 6.

5 is a diagram illustrating a method for managing copyrighted works in a service provided by the server 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6 is a flowchart illustrating a method for managing copyrighted works in the process of using the service of FIG. 5 .

5 may be, for example, a use screen of a service provided by the server 10 .

For convenience of description, in (a) of FIG. 5, the terminal is referred to as the first terminal 20-1 as the author's terminal, and in (b) of FIG. 5, the terminal is referred to as the second terminal 20-2 as the user terminal.

Meanwhile, the image 510 in the first terminal 20-1 shown in (a) of FIG. 5 and the image 520 in the second terminal 20-2 shown in (b) of FIG. 5 are the same image. can be

Referring to (a) of FIG. 5 , through the process of FIGS. 1 to 4 described above, the user of the first terminal 20 - 1 , that is, the author may upload the image 510 and register it as a work.

5(b) uploads, for example, an image 520 similar to the image 510 uploaded by the first terminal 20-1 and registered as a work by the server 10 in FIG. 5(a). it may be

The relationship between (a) and (b) of FIG. 5 is described with reference to FIG. 6 as follows.

5 and 6, when a work is uploaded from the second terminal 20-2 (S201), the server 10 determines whether the uploaded work is similar to another work (S202).

As a result of the determination in step S202, the server 10 determines that the work uploaded by the second terminal 20-2 is not similar to other works, creates a work block for the uploaded work as shown in FIG. The work block can be transmitted to the blockchain network (S203).

On the other hand, if the server 10 determines that the work uploaded by the second terminal 20-2 is similar to another work as a result of the determination in step S202, the server 10 may transmit the guide data to the second terminal 20-2 ( S204).

Depending on the embodiment, the guide data includes information related to warnings and objections that the copyrighted work uploaded by the second terminal 20-2 is similar to other copyrighted works, the occurrence of copyright fees due to the use of other copyrighted works, and information on violating other copyrighted works. It may include at least one or more of the like.

Depending on the embodiment, the copyright fee according to the use of other copyrighted works may be real money stipulated by relevant laws or virtual money stipulated in the service provided by the server 10 (531, 532) there is.

After transmitting the guide in step S204, the server 10 may generate and transmit information on the use of works according to the confirmation or feedback of the second terminal 20-2 (S205).

Depending on the embodiment, the information on the use of works generated in step S205 is general information rather than block information, and may be transmitted to the second terminal 20-2.

Depending on the embodiment, the information on the use of copyrighted works generated in step S205 is block information, that is, blocks using copyrighted works, and may be transmitted to the blockchain network 100. In this case, the server 10 may separately transmit notification information on the use of works to the first terminal 20-1 and the second terminal 20-2.

The embodiments described above may be implemented as hardware components, software components, and/or a combination of hardware components and software components. For example, the devices, methods and components described in the embodiments may include, for example, a processor, a controller, a central processing unit (CPU), a graphics processing unit (GPU), an ALU ( arithmetic logic unit), digital signal processor, microcomputer, field programmable gate array (FPGA), programmable logic unit (PLU), microprocessor, Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICS), or instructions ( may be implemented using one or more general purpose or special purpose computers, like any other device capable of executing and responding to instructions.

The method according to the embodiment may be implemented in the form of program instructions that can be executed through various computer means and recorded on a computer readable medium. The computer readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. alone or in combination. Program commands recorded on the medium may be specially designed and configured for the embodiment or may be known and usable to those skilled in computer software. Examples of computer-readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks and magnetic tapes, optical media such as CD-ROMs and DVDs, and magnetic media such as floptical disks. - includes hardware devices specially configured to store and execute program instructions, such as magneto-optical media, and ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Examples of program instructions include high-level language codes that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter, as well as machine language codes such as those produced by a compiler. The hardware devices described above may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the embodiments, and vice versa.

As described above, although the embodiments have been described with limited drawings, those skilled in the art can make various modifications and variations from the above description. For example, the described techniques may be performed in an order different from the method described, and/or components of the described system, structure, device, circuit, etc. may be combined or combined in a different form than the method described, or other components may be used. Or even if it is replaced or substituted by equivalents, appropriate results can be achieved. Therefore, other implementations, other embodiments, and equivalents of the claims are within the scope of the following claims.

Claims (1)

A method for managing a work performed by a server participating in a blockchain network and providing a specific service, and provided by a first terminal participating in the blockchain network,
Receiving identity authentication information based on a decentralized IDentity (DID) of a blockchain from the first terminal;
verifying the received authentication information of the first terminal on the blockchain network; and
When a work is uploaded from the first terminal and it is determined that the uploaded work is not similar to other works, generating a work block for the uploaded work and transmitting it on the blockchain network. Works management method.

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