By John Glenday

Chinese search giant Baidu has announced the rollout of a new rewards program as part of Totem, its newly launched blockchain platform.

First launched in April, Totem was first conceived in order to harness blockchain technology to root out intellectual property rights violations for pictures and images, with sophisticated AI software helping to automate the process of tracing and monitoring copyrighted pictures.

Copyright holders are thus able to upload verified work to Totem to have their details permanently written into the blockchain itself for immediate protection.

Branching out further from those beginnings Baidu will now offer a Read full story ›

Source: The Drum