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TFO looking for participants for March blockchain test
telecom | 02/01/2018 2:45 pm EST
OTTAWA — A Canada Media Fund-backed initiative to implement blockchain technology that would make it more efficient to credit content and pay rightsholders will begin testing of the system in March.
In August, Ontario public broadcaster Groupe Media TFO announced it had...
CMF funding blockchain-based system for rightsholders
Media | 08/02/2017 4:47 pm EDT
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) is backing an initiative by Ontario public broadcaster Groupe Média TFO to implement technology that would allow it to more efficiently credit content and pay rightsholders. The proposed system will use “blockchain” technology to create a digital transaction recording system that will effectively encrypt and automate the payment to rightsholders through a peer-to-peer system, eliminating human involvement in the chain and digitizing contracts with content owners. While blockchain technology isn’t new—it’s behind the cyber currency bitcoin—the TFO...