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Toroblocks / Copyrightsworld Is Pausing Services as We Explore Our AI Future

Georgios — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 08:39:28 +0000

A Message from the Toroblocks Team

After more than five years of building Toroblocks together, we want to let you know that we will be closing down our services in the coming weeks.

This decision comes after long consideration. Toroblocks started as a bold experiment in using blockchain to protect and verify digital content, and thanks to you, it grew into a trusted tool used by creators and businesses around the world. Your support, ideas, and belief in our mission shaped everything we built.

As the technological landscape shifts rapidly into the era of AI, we are taking a step back to rethink how Toroblocks can evolve. This means that the current Toroblocks service will be discontinued for now, but we will be exploring how our core values — authenticity, provenance, protection — can find a new expression in the world of AI-powered workflows.

Here’s what you can expect moving forward:

Your protected content remains safe. All existing records will continue to be verified and permanently anchored on the blockchain.
Dashboard access stays available. You will still be able to log in, view, and retrieve all your past entries.
No new accounts or projects. We are closing onboarding for new users.
Subscriptions will end naturally. All active subscriptions will run until the end of their current cycle and will not renew.

We deeply appreciate everyone who joined us on this journey. Toroblocks wouldn’t have existed without you. Although this chapter is closing, the spirit behind Toroblocks — protecting the truth and origin of digital work — feels more relevant than ever in the age of AI.

We’ll be exploring what a future version of Toroblocks might look like, and how our mission can continue in a world where authenticity matters more than ever.

Thank you for your trust, your creativity, and your support.

– The Toroblocks Team

“Blockchain time stamping is critical for business owners to increase trust and transparency with their audience.”

Natasa — Wed, 18 May 2022 09:16:25 +0000

Want to meet one of the pre-eminent social media experts in America?

Then don’t miss our conversation with the fabulous Kris Ruby (@krisruby)!

Kris is the CEO of Ruby Media Group, a full service Public Relations and Social Media Agency located in Manhattan, which offers public relations services, content marketing, social media and personal branding services.

Being a frequent on air contributor on FOX News, CNBC, Good Morning America, and The Today Show, and being featured on Bravo as “one of the pre-eminent social media experts in the field,” Kris joined the CEN podcast and shared her valuable experience and knowledge on Blockchain, the creator economy, PR and SEO.

– What is it like to be a CEO of a top NYC PR agency?

– What PR, SEO and Content Marketing strategies lead her clients to success?

– How important is blockchain technology for content creators and how can it offer IP protection to creators?

– Are NFTs a bubble?

– What steps should a creator follow to build a business online with IP protection as a top priority?

Most importantly she shares her thoughts about the new Creators Economy and Web 3.

It’s a very inspiring and motivating chat, so give it a listen or watch it on YouTube.

Also available on Spotify, Apple podcasts and Google.

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How NFTs help form the Metaverse and the new Web 3.0

Georgios — Sat, 07 May 2022 16:17:42 +0000

In 2021, NFTs rocked the planet by storm, resulting in a digital creative revolution while also being one of the year’s fastest rising asset classes.

Non-fungible token technology has enabled artists to sell digital originals without the use of intermediaries while also receiving royalties on secondary sales of their work. However, this is only the early stages of the capabilities that non-fungible tokens offer to the web 3.0 world.

How are NFTs Transforming Digital Ownership

Today, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) give a comprehensive history and evidence of ownership for digital assets and any other asset recognised as a non-fungible token. This technology allows you to create one-of-a-kind digital assets and objects that anybody can purchase or sell on an open market.

NFTs already have evolved to offer more functionality in a variety of sectors today like, transactional game assets and control ownership of your metaverse username and possessions.

NFTs are laying the groundwork for digital communities, economies, and assets as the online world transitions from web 2.0 to web 3.0.

The importance of NFTs in online communities and events.

The usage of non-fungible tokens as “memberships” to a virtual community was among the first evolutions in NFT use-cases. Ownership of NFT profile photo collections such as CryptoPunks and Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) naturally became central figures around which owners communities were built.

With this notion in mind, collections of profile image NFTs like Oni Ronin have grown, enabling access to seminars, free NFTs, and prize raffles for those who own the Oni Ronin collection.

NFTs have also been utilized to give exclusive admission to in-person events, in addition to online groups and events. Because NFTs give irrefutable evidence of ownership on the blockchain, the technology is well suited to address major concerns in the event ticketing industry, such as forgery and electronic fraud.

Useful and interchangeable game elements.

NFTs have shown to be effective in the gaming industry by allowing gamers to own in-game assets they have acquired. NFTs “heroes” are available for purchase, trade, and rental in projects like DeFi Kingdoms on the Harmony blockchain.
These NFTs are essential assets that may be sent on missions to earn in-game goods and crypto for the user, in addition to offering ownership of the in-game asset. These objects may be traded for virtual currency or used to make new items that will help heroes gain more power.

NFTs have been integrated into blockchain games such as DeFi Kingdoms, Crabada and Axie Infinity, resulting in thriving in-game economies where NFTs are valued based on their traits and statistics, which determine how much crypto currency they earn. In these games, playing time is rewarded since power leveling NFT assets increases profits and increases the possibilities of uncommon and valuable item drops.

Reinventing Digital Assets and Identities

Are you concerned that someone in the metaverse may take your username? Through the Ethereum Name Service (ENS), NFTs have already facilitated ownership of unique “.eth” Ethereum wallet addresses, with over 670,000 different “.eth” addresses registered thus far.

These custom addresses are used as NFTs in other decentralized apps, making formerly complicated wallet addresses more personalized and easier to remember.

Other initiatives, such as NFT.com, employ NFTs to give individuals unique ownership of a personal page, such as “www.nft.com/yourname,” where they may display and communicate their NFTs on a decentralized social network.

Making possible to own things in the Metaverse economy

Non-fungible tokens, like usernames and wallet addresses, are becoming the core tech for assets in the metaverse. The Sandbox, a metaverse project, is already employing NFTs to represent digital space or land, virtual furniture and décor, and much more.

The Sandbox earned more than $24 million in sales of NFTs representing metaverse real estate in March 2022, with Atari, Snoop Dogg, and the South China Morning Post among the top businesses and superstars to purchase plots of digital property.

Digital asset ownership and exchange has only begun to be revolutionized by NFTs; they have laid the groundwork for digital communities, tradeable in-game assets and the metaverse’s economic system.

The future looks incredibly interesting, and we will be watching closely.

Is it possible to protect AI-generated works with copyright? According to the US Copyright Office, no.

Georgios — Sun, 01 May 2022 16:33:01 +0000

In recent years, artificial intelligence has improved its ability to create “art” – algorithms are now capable of making convincing “images” of people and locations that do not exist. The US Copyright Office has determined that some AI artworks cannot be copyrighted in the United States.

Last Monday, the Copyright Office issued a fresh ruling rejecting a request to copyright an AI-generated artwork. “Visions of a Dying Brain” created by AI.

A three-person board was entrusted with reviewing a 2019 verdict against a man called Steven Thaler, who had applied for the copyright of an art piece titled A Recent Entrance to Paradise, created by an AI system he called Creativity Machine.

The piece was part of a series in which the AI reprocessed images to produce scenes from a “simulated near-death experience.” In 1997, Thaler was granted a patent for a method of creating fictitious “visions of a dying brain.”

The algorithm “generated fictional experience from various reversible noise and irreversible damage effects within neural-network-based brain simulations,” writes Urbasm. “Rather than show a neural net pictures (as a big search engine company has) and allow it to replace items in the scene with weird objects deliberately planted by software engineers (i.e., dog heads and pagodas), these systems are exposed to their surroundings, ‘blindfolded,’ and allowed to choose from the myriad self-generated fantasies it finds most interesting.”, says the author.

On November 3rd, 2018, Thaler filed a copyright application for A Recent Entrance to Paradise, designating himself as the claimant and the work’s author as “Creativity Machine,” saying that the copyright should be transferred from the AI to him due to his “ownership of the machine.”

Thaler was trying to register this computer-generated piece as a work-for-hire to the proprietor of the Creativity Machine, “according to the application, which noted that the work “was autonomously created by a computer algorithm operating on a machine.”

An Exchange of Letters with the Copyright Office

The US Copyright Office denied his registration on August 12th, 2019, noting that it “lacks the human authorship required to substantiate a copyright claim.”

Thaler filed an appeal the following month, requesting that the Copyright Office review the application’s denial, claiming that “the human authorship criterion is unlawful and unsupported by either statute or case law.”

Thaler had “provided no evidence on sufficient creative input or intervention by a human author in the Work,” according to the Office, which would not “abandon its longstanding interpretation of the Copyright Act, Supreme Court, and lower court judicial precedent that a work meets the legal and formal requirements of copyright protection only if it is created by a human author.”

On May 27, 2020, Thaler filed a second appeal, arguing that AI artworks should be copyrightable because it would “advance the fundamental aims of copyright law, including the constitutional foundation for copyright protection.” The Office was “currently relying on non-binding judicial opinions from the Gilded Age to answer the question of whether [computer-generated works] can be protected,” according to the second appeal, which claimed that “there is no binding authority that prohibits copyright for [computer-generated works]” and that the Office was “currently relying on non-binding judicial opinions from the Gilded Age to answer the question of whether [computer-generated works] can be protected.”

In the United States, only human creators have copyright.

Because Thaler confessed that no human author was engaged in the work, the Copyright Office focused on Thaler’s contention that the criterion for human authorship is unconstitutional and backed by earlier judgements when examining his second appeal.

“The Court has continued to articulate the nexus between the human mind and creative expression as a prerequisite for copyright protection,” the Office adds. “The Office is bound by Supreme Court precedent, which establishes that human authorship is a necessary component of copyright protection.

[…] While the Board is not aware of a United States court that has considered whether artificial intelligence can be the author for copyright purposes, the courts have been consistent in finding that non-human expression is ineligible for copyright protection.

[…] After reviewing the statutory text, judicial precedent, and longstanding Copyright Office practice, the Board again concludes that human authorship is a prerequisite to copyright protection in the United States and that the Work therefore cannot be registered.”

The complete 7-page ruling, which was released on February 14th, 2022, is as follows:

A Recent Entrance to Paradise by Michael Zhang

The “monkey selfie” case

A decade earlier, a monkey snatched photographer David Slater’s camera and snapped a series of viral self-portraits, sparking a similar copyright debate. In 2015, the animal rights organization PETA sued the photographer on behalf of the monkey, requesting that copyright be transferred to the animal.

Slater agreed to contribute 25% of future revenues from the images to charity in a 2017 settlement with PETA, but a court ruled against PETA in 2018, setting the precedent that only humans, not animals, may register for copyright and launch copyright claims.

Because it was not made by a human, this viral monkey selfie from 2011 is in the public domain.

So, whats the Future of Copyright for Artificial Intelligence-Created Works?

The Verge, which first reported on the recent Copyright Office ruling, points out that humans may still be able to earn copyright for AI-created works if they take a different method that causes the Copyright Office to perceive them as an important part of the process.

The Verge reports that “Thaler emphasized that humans weren’t meaningfully involved because his goal was to prove that machine-created works could receive protection, not simply to stop people from infringing on the picture” . “The board’s reasoning takes his explanation for granted. So if someone tried to copyright a similar work by arguing it was a product of their own creativity executed by a machine, the outcome might look different.”.

Thaler might potentially take his case to the courts instead of the Copyright Office, filing a lawsuit to see whether a judge would reach a different result than the copyright board.

The combination of AI and copyright will definitely continue to crop up in court conflicts and headlines in the future years as artificial intelligence technologies play a larger and larger role in photography and other creative professions.

Georgios Efstratiadis, CopyrightsWorld: “every creation of any type and format comes with copyright”

Natasa — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 11:01:16 +0000

This interview was originally published in Cybernews

From Instagram bloggers to photographers and Youtube creators – all have found their own niche and loyal audience online. But having to deal with impostors and those who wish to exploit others’ work for their own benefit hinders creativity.

How should one protect his creation when it is shared among millions? And why is such protection even necessary? To learn more about this, the Cybernews team has reached out to Georgios Efstratiadis, the CEO of CopyrightsWorld – copyright protection, monitoring, and monetization service.

How did the idea of CopyrightsWorld come to life? What has the journey been like?

In 2001, I founded the first online music community in Greece (Musicwave. gr), which came to be one of the largest in Europe. Since then, we have been getting a lot of questions about copyright and online protection. Users were reluctant to upload their creations to a place where everyone could easily get a copy just by making a right-click. Over the years, that was something I constantly had on my mind, looking for a solution that would fit the new developments and creator needs. When blockchain came into play, it clicked right away. This technology is like made for copyright registration. So, me and my co-founder Michael adopted it and started building services around it. That’s how CopyrightsWorld was born.

Can you tell us a little bit about what you do? What are the main challenges you help navigate?

CopyrightsWorld wants to liberate creativity in this new era. We want every creator to feel free and safe to share his work and engage with his potential audiences. That’s why we have created real-time copyright registration on the blockchain and worldwide monitoring that checks the public web and lets you know who is using your work and in what way. And if there is any infringement, we got you covered. Takedown notices and court reports are here to equip you with everything you will need to defend your case.

Also, our automation plugs into the creator’s workflow and pulls data from social media accounts and blogs, protecting and monitoring it automatically. Just set it and forget it. We don’t want to be in the way of our users. We want to be a platform that takes care of what people create transparently, affordably, and in real-time.

In your opinion, what are the most concerning threats that digital asset owners and creators face nowadays?

Ownership, in general, is something that will concern us a lot in this new era. Every 60 seconds, we post 1M stories on Instagram, upload 700 hours of content on YouTube, and send more than 200M emails. And this is only growing at exponential rates. At the same time, people are used to taking and using anything they find online as it is free, and that must change. It’s a long and hard educational process. Also, the new technologies make it almost impossible to recognize something authentic from a copy or a deepfake. NFTs will make a difference on the ownership and tracking part, but the deepfake issue is far from solved.

How did the recent global events affect the blockchain landscape? Were there any new challenges you had to adapt to?

People sometimes think of blockchain technology and cryptos as the same thing. Blockchain is a backbone technology that is here to stay. Cryptos are built on top of this technology, and of course, many carry no real value. Of course, cryptos are the way to go when it comes to monetary values, but it’s a work in progress. In our case, we engage with all new technologies and use them to create better services for our customer base. We constantly adopt. We have our own blockchain technology, and we are plugging into the crypto ecosystem.

In general, people must be careful and invest only in cryptos with a real utility, business, and roadmap behind them, using money they can risk losing. That’s not financial advice. In any case, it’s just my two cents.

Since digital assets are a relatively new technology, what myths and misconceptions surrounding this environment do you notice most often?

A lot of creators think of copyright as something super complicated to manage and protect. And that used to be the case. Not anymore. Also, some people think copyrights do not apply to digital assets. That’s untrue and dangerous. Every creation of any type and format comes with copyright. But just creating something is not self-proving. In the case where you will have to prove you are the owner of that work, your word is not enough. According to international copyright law, you will need strong and early third-party proof of ownership to become the actual beneficiary. And that’s exactly part of what we do. Affordably, automatically and hustle-free.

What predictions do you have for the future of blockchain technology?

I see blockchains merging into one huge network. Coins, NFTs, and all digital assets will be able to move from chain to chain. Decentralization will dominate the world, and everything will be tokenized. Online and offline. People will use blockchain as a service as they now use computing power in AWS. You will not know which chain you are using, and you shouldn’t care at the end of the day. Also, ownership will become something very important. Ownership and responsibility are two sides of the same coin.

What other technological advancements do you hope to see used widely in the near future?

With the metaverse right at the gate and digital creativity growing exponentially, I would like to see a technology that will help us distinguish and point out fake news, deepfakes, and in general bad actors. I think we are right at the edge of losing this game as the problem of misinformation and data misuse is blowing.

In this age of ever-evolving technology, what are the key security measures everyone should implement on their devices?

Take care of your ID, always check your privacy settings, update your software, and have an eye for people pretending to be you in the digital space.

All people must be aware of the fact that anything online is there to stay. Also, any misuse or bad acting is there forever, just to be discovered at a later date. Blockchain will make these activity records even more constant and permanent, so always have this in mind.

Share with us, what’s next for CopyrightsWorld?

We currently protect and monitor all digital assets a creator can produce. We’ll soon be adding monetization services to our platform so users can make a living out of their creations. NFTs are a logical next step for us.

Also, we just launched our coin. cwCoin is the first creator-economy utility token that comes with amazing free services for anyone that holds it. We are aiming for a new micro-economy around this coin, so creators of any kind can participate and make use of all the benefits that come and will come with it.

“If you are doing music or making videos, Tiktok is your platform right now”

Natasa — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 09:07:31 +0000

“I’m not a business man… I am a business” That’s the quote that absolutely describes our guest in the next CEN podcast episode, which is now LIVE with incredible Brent Shavnore (@shavnore)! And that’s so true!

Brent is a United States Marine Corps veteran who, after serving 5 years in the Marines and a deployment to Iraq, decided to change his career, pursue a bachelor’s degree in psychology and become an artist engineer/photographer/videographer/musician/video editor/audio video system designer/social media marketing consultant!

We had an amazing chat about his life, which is more than interesting and full of experiences, and about the creators economy new era, and the changes it brings to creators and the way they communicate with their audience.

He talked about

– how he achieved such a great success in Instagram,

– which social media platform he thinks is the best for creators to use,

– what the power of Tiktok for musicians and videographers is

– how he ended up working on documentaries with Forbes Magazine

and so much more!

It’s a very inspiring and motivating chat, so give it a listen

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“How I grew to 400k followers in only 8 months”

Natasa — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 09:00:01 +0000

Do you wanna grow on Tiktok?

If yes, then don’t miss our new podcast episode with Tiktok expert Noelle Simpson (@noellesimpson_).

Noelle describes how she managed just by giving video tips and tricks to reach 400k followers on Tiktok in only 8 months.

What was her plan?

How many times did she post per day?

Where did she get the ideas on what to create?

What other social media platforms does she plan to conquer and how?

Such an amazingly interesting chat! Available now on Spotify, Apple podcasts and Google.

Listen the whole episode here

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Don’t like your job and want to start your own business online? Claudia Woodham is here to help!

Natasa — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 08:47:56 +0000

Want to start your own online business? If yes then don’t miss this weeks podcast with ambitious business and marketing coach Claudia Woodham (@claudiawoodham_)!

Claudia talks about how she built her online business, how communities helped her with that, and how she moved from being a simple assistant, to strategy, consulting and coaching. She also describes how she uses different social media platforms like Youtube, Instagram and Tiktok on her business and what potentials she sees in them.

She explains how she passes on to others, all the knowledge and experience she has gained so far, in order to help them start their own online business or grow their already existing ones.

We hope you enjoy the episode and you find what Claudia says as inspiring and motivating as we did! Give it a listen here

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“I recently had my whole IG page copied…”

Natasa — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 08:40:00 +0000

Incredibly talented and motivating Marina Yanay (@marina.y.t) talks about how she helps people connect with themselves, their body, their emotions and their sensations, and by doing so, how they heal and become more creative!

Who doesn’t want that really?

She also expresses her thoughts on business, and how it should be done. She believes that we must have a greater why than just making money. We need excitement! And that is what she tries to pass on to others.

Finally, she shares a recent experience she had when her WHOLE Instagram page was copied. How she felt and what she is doing since then to protect her content and the things she creates, so as to keep on doing what she loves the most… writing and helping people heal!

We hope you find the podcast inspiring and uplifting, so give it a listen here

Available now on Spotify, Apple and Google podcasts.

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“How I got 20000+ monthly traffic in my blog right from the start!”

Natasa — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 08:31:32 +0000

How do I start a blog? Is it expensive and difficult?

Is blogging a business or a marketing tool?

Should you use one social media platform or more?

Which one should you start with? Social media marketing or blogging?

All such questions and many more are answered by fabulous Ruth Adeyemi in this episode! Ruth talks about how, from a biochemist she became a blogging coach, and how she teaches others blogging tips and methods to generate traffic from blogging.

We hope you you find our conversation with Ruth as interesting as we did. Available now on Spotify, Apple podcasts and Google.

Give it a listen here

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