Ascribe helps you securely share your digital creations with the world

“Ascribe helps legitimize digital-based art work by providing a concrete system of authenticity,” says Jonathan Monaghan, an American computer animator and artist using the service. “It is an important part of the ever-growing acceptance of computer-created work by the art world.”

Artists upload their digital work to the Ownership Registry™ to stake a claim to their works. The digital work is then stored in the Ascribe Cloud and title to the work is credited to the artist. The entry is time-stamped and each edition of a work receives a unique crypto-ID that is inseparable from the original.

This make it easy for artists and stakeholders to authenticate digital work; transfer, loan and consign digital work; track how digital property is being used and where it is on the internet, and buy and sell digital work via marketplaces that want to give greater security to everyone.

“Given that the internet behemoths of Facebook, Yahoo! And Google all operate in the advertising space, you can imagine that art market has significant untapped potential if you can replicate the model for digital art,” says Bruce Pon, co-founder of Ascribe. “By the way 85% of photos on Google Image Search are stolen.”

In our State of the Arts Observation we investigate the obstacles and necessary changes the digital art world has had to make in order to represent itself in the physical world.  Ownership was one of the biggest hurdles but Ascribe is paving the way with over 600 artists (including Richie Culver, Thomas Traum, Andreas Müller (Nanika) and Valentin Ruhry) declaring over 2,600 works.