Copyright Protection, Smart Contracts, Digital Scarcity And NFTs For Authors. Blockchain For The Publishing Industry With Simon-Pierre Marion

The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

Joanna Penn

Self-improvement, Arts, Books, Entrepreneurship, Business, Education

4.8 • 745 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Blockchain technology offers exciting opportunities for authors and the publishing industry. In this interview, Simon-Pierre Marion and I discuss copyright protection, smart contracts, estate management and faster, more transparent payments, as well as how digital scarcity could expand the revenue potential in the digital supply chain. Plus, I add some extra commentary on the potential […]

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur,
0:09.0	bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing, publishing options and marketing ideas for your book.
0:17.0	You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint and lots more information at
0:23.0	TheCreativepen.com.
0:25.5	And that's Penn with a double N.
0:27.7	And here's the show.
0:31.0	Hello, creatives.
0:32.3	I'm Joanna Penn, and this is episode number 538 of the podcast, and it is Tuesday, the 9th of March, 2021 as I record this.
0:42.6	So in today's Inbetween episode, I'm talking to Simone Pierre Marillon about blockchain for authors and publishing.
0:50.7	And yes, he's French-Canadian and you'll get to hear his lovely accent soon.
0:54.5	Now, we start by briefly explaining blockchain and why you can think of it more like an
0:59.1	architecture, the technology that will underpin the next stage of selling online, what it
1:04.3	brings to publishing and authors the possibilities of smart contracts, including resale of
1:10.5	e-books, audiobooks, digital things, and estate management,
1:15.2	which is something a lot of us think about. Then we talk about digital scarcity and why it is such a
1:20.2	fundamental mindset shift for authors. And because NFTs, which are essentially representing digital
1:26.2	scarcity, are in the news right now,
1:28.7	what I have done is I've inserted some extra comment.
1:32.5	So at around 23, I guess 25 minutes in, in the middle of the interview, I will come in and
1:39.7	add extra comments because that's when we talk about it.
1:43.6	And then we'll return to talk about
1:45.3	book chain, which is a new way of publishing books and I have used it to publish a book on
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