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Writers publishing their work online China's Hangzhou now has a solution.
Thanks to blockchain technology, the integral process of work circulating in cyberspace can be extracted for writers to use as evidence in court.
A judge at the Internet court. Writers used to resort to the trial court.
On the other hand, notarial procedures and hiring of professional lawyers push up the costs of seeking justice, he said.
But blockchain guarantees that data can not be buffered, two to its decentralized and open distributed ledger technology. Therefore, all digital footprints stored in the judicial blockchain system – authorship, time of creation, content and evidence of infringement – have legal effect, Wang said.
Hangzhou is home to many, if not most, online writers in China. A total of 107 famous online writers have signed contracts to create works in "writers' village" in the city's Binjiang District.
China has set up three Internet courts in Hangzhou, Beijing and Guangzhou to handle Internet-related cases. The country's 800 million Internet users and online business have led to the rising number of Internet-related disputes.
