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Issuers, Holders, and Verifiers

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Credential issuers

In the context of the cultural and creative industries, any organisation or institution could potentially be an issuer of verifiable credentials and act as a trust service for attribution or assertions.

Let’s have a look at a few examples of potential credential issuers:

  • A membership organisation could issue VCs to their members;

  • A CMO (collective management organisation or collecting society) or PRO (Performance Rights Organisation) could issue VCs to creators they represent;

  • A publisher or media organisation could attest attribution of authors, photographers, and freelancers;

  • Digital distributors are trusted and established intermediaries that usually represent a large number of rightsholders. They could act as trust service.

  • Any trusted media organisation or publicly known entity could issue VCs.

Credential holders

Verifiable credentials have the potential to provide sufficient identification about the holders as the parties making content declarations, such as:

  • Creators, i.e., writers, bloggers, photographers, journalists, musicians, etc.;

  • Rightsholders, i.e., publishers, labels, intermediaries, retailers.

Creators
Rightsholders
Intermediaries

Image

Photographers

Stock photo platforms, publishers, photo licensing agencies

News agencies

Audio

Bands, songwriters, podcasters

Record labels, music publishers, studios

Music distributors, CMOs

Text

Authors, journalists, bloggers

Publishers (academic, trade, educational, audiobook, news), literary Agencies

News and ebook distributors; libraries

Video

Vloggers

TV and video producers and broadcasters

Video distributors

Credential verifiers

We see many use cases where parties might want to verify content, claims, and attribution. Verifiers of VCs could be:

  • Any user who wishes to authenticate the content declaration;

  • A platform, such as an Online Content-Sharing Service Provider (OCSSP);

  • Retailers and shops that require domain-specific identity confirmation or want to verify claims to content or attribution.