Blockchain - Based Music Metadata Copyright Protection Using Fuzzy Logic

Copyright has been a big problem recently with false positives, especially in the music industry where it is a gray zone. While it does not sound that bad, in reality these false positives may cost millions of dollars for unsuspecting producers. It may incur an insurmountable loss for the big guns of the industry, but it may also potentially end the career of some independent producers of the industry. To help prevent copyright strikes for producers, the author proposed a block chain -based music metadata copyright protection as block chain is recently popular with the research of copyright protection. The protection will analyze the metadata of the music in question with the alleged plagiarist and determine how similar it is. With the help of Smart Contract, the block chain will help storing and associating the metadata of the music such as melodies, time signatures, lyrics, and other data for the rightful producer with confidentiality, integrity, and non-repudiation. It does not solve copyright infringement in general, but this helps reduce the number of false positives infringements dubbed as “accidental plagiarism” before publicizing. This helps with the efficiency of legal lawsuits against music that would take months and numerous musicologists to be much more distributed and not tamper-able by third parties