ascribe.io - Prevent Your Unique Work From Being Plagerized! Q&A

What is ascribe?

ascribe is a service that empowers creators to truly own, securely share and track the history of a digital work. ascribe does this by giving creators the tools to lock in authorship, set the intent and gain visibility into where their work spreads. By doing this, creators can be recognized while giving buyers an easier way to discover and reward them. 

Why should I use ascribe?

ascribe is for any creator who wants to protect and manage their creative work. ascribe lets you share your work knowing that your authorship claim is secured and enables buyers to collect and truly own your digital work. With ascribe, selling digital property is as easy as selling physical property. ascribe allows you to transfer intellectual property to someone, anywhere in the world, simply by email. ascribe aims to democratize IP by making it easily accessible to the individual. 

I've just ascribed my first work. What did I just do?

After ascribing, you just claimed authorship for a work and declared that you are the creator or rights holder of the work. This claim is timestamped onto a public, secure database called the blockchain. To further secure your claim, make sure that your ascribe ID is shown with the work or in the caption. 

What can I do on ascribe?

1. Claim Authorship – it’s simple on ascribe for you to claim authorship of a work. Upload your file, enter some information and then confirm that the work is truly yours, then “ascribe” it. The ascribe technology then creates an unbreakable bond between you and your work that can’t be taken away.

2. Transfer Rights – transfer your work along with license rights to someone else by simply sending an email or let a marketplace do it on your behalf.

3. Set Limited Editions – create limited editions that are authentic and unique. Limited Editions give people the chance to own your digital work just as with physical work.

4. Track the Chain of Ownership – by registering your work, a chain of ownership (provenance) will stay with the work as it is transferred from one owner to the next. Clean provenance gives collectors confidence they are buying authentic work that came directly from the artist or creator.

5. Generate a Certificate of Authenticity – each work comes with a Certificate of Authenticity (COA) with a unique cryptographic ID and the complete ownership history that you can print out.

6. Display Works in a Gallery View – (coming soon) ascribe has had numerous requests to allow creators and rights holders to show off their work. ascribe is making it so that each artist can have their own personal ascribe page (i.e. ascribe.io/) so you can show off to the world. 

How much does ascribe cost?

ascribe is free for creators because ascribe believe's that everyone should be able to claim authorship and declare how they want their work to be used and shared. 

How does ascribe protect my work?

ascribe create's an unbreakable bond between a creator and their work. ascribe use's some really cool technology under the hood to make this happen. Because there’s an unbreakable bond, collectors and buyers know that they are getting authentic work, directly from the artist. ascribe keeps track of all the transactions related to your works – transfers, loans and consignments. ascribe is building tools to scan the web looking for copies of your works and give you transparency.