ANALYZING BLOCKCHAIN BASED MODELS FOR DIGITAL CONTENT METADATA TRACEABILITY

Metadata defines all parties involved in the ownership and creation of the content. This paper analyzes six challenges in existing Digital Content Metadata including Lack of Standards, Transparency in Revenue Settlement, Multiplicity of Music Metadata, Metadata Tampering, International Regulations and Human Error. It classifies three known Industry Models for Blockchain based Content Distribution. It performs a systematic review of each Model to classify the known gaps and benefits including Latency, Storage Limitations and Permissioned Access Control. It proceeds to recommend a framework for Blockchain based Metadata tracking to bring Trust and Traceability amongst Content Provider