{"id":58118,"date":"2022-02-19T16:22:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T14:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=58118"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:07:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T12:07:43","slug":"vkontakte-to-add-nft-support-for-monetising-content-and-copyright-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/vkontakte-to-add-nft-support-for-monetising-content-and-copyright-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"VKontakte to add NFT support for monetising content and copyright protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VKontakte announced support for <span data-descr=\"non-fungible tokens\" class=\"old_tooltip\">NFT<\/span> to monetise user-generated content and protect copyright. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vesti.ru\/hitech\/article\/2678858\">\u00ab\u0412\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0438\u00bb<\/a> reports, citing the social network&#8217;s chief technology officer, Alexander Tobol.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, VKontakte plans to act as a broker and facilitator, without creating its own blockchain. The social network will use its own Content ID system, which is already used to verify authorship of uploaded music and video.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;The main story here, probably, is about trust in the uniqueness of content. But if you supplement it through Content ID \u2014 a guarantee that on this platform or worldwide this content is unique \u2014 then, in general, it belongs to you by copyright,&#8221; Tobol explained.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The VKontakte chief technology officer also called the initiative &#8220;a universal super-cool solution for authors, which opens up a whole new world.&#8221; But for this, guarantees of uniqueness and copyright protection in different countries are required, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the NFT marketplace Cent <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/nft-marketplace-cent-halts-trading-amid-fakes-and-plagiarism\">stopped trading<\/a> due to sales of copied and counterfeit tokens by users who did not own the rights to the content.<\/p>\n<p>As reported in January, the OpenSea platform said that more than 80% of NFTs created with the free mint option <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/opensea-more-than-80-of-free-mint-nfts-were-plagiarised-or-spam\">were plagiarised, counterfeit or spam<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VKontakte announced support for non-fungible tokens to monetise user-generated content and protect copyright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1213,959],"class_list":["post-58118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-nft","tag-vkontakte"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"27","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58120,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58118\/revisions\/58120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}