Solving Web3’s Attribution Problem with Imprimo

In this episode, the yWhales team speak with Roanie Levy, CEO and President of Access Copyright and CEO of Prescient Innovations. Imprimo is the collective effort of organizations with an established record in the visual artists and rights holder communities: CARFAC, Copyright Visual Arts (COVA-DAAV) and Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels du Québec (RAAV). It is built in partnership with Prescient Innovations, a subsidiary of Access Copyright. Roanie shares how Imprimo uses verified storytelling to organize and catalog art, show connections within an artist’s career, make connections with other artists, and create opportunities for discovery. She also talks about how it supports established artists with complex cataloging needs and emerging artists seeking a professional online presence and art-world connections.

 

About Guests

Roanie Levy is the CEO and President of Access Copyright, a collective that distributes millions of dollars annually in licensing royalties to creator and publisher affiliates. She is also the CEO of Prescient Innovations. She is an internationally recognized champion of creator rights and a blockchain visionary. Prior to joining Imprimo, she held key positions on major policy files at Canadian Heritage and Industry Canada, and served as a private sector management consultant for Fortune 500 companies.

 

You’ll learn about:

• Imprimo, a portfolio management for artists that is built in partnership with Prescient Innovations, a subsidiary of Access Copyright
• How Imprimo solves attributions through Web3 by connecting digital representation of the creative work in digital form with the creator or owner and the metadata of the work
• How Imprimo is creating a digital destination for people to explore and discover art and artists and to connect art and artists

 

Resources: 

Connect with Roanie Levy: LinkedIn | Twitter

Connect with yWhales: Website | BitClout | Twitter

Imprimo: Website | Instagram | Twitter | Medium

Access Copyright: Website | Twitter | YouTube | Email

 

Timestamps

[01:18] Roanie’s background

[11:15] Adoption in the early days of Web3

[14:19] Sifting out bad actors is critical in Web3

[16:22] The journey to fix the attribution problem

[19:26] About Imprimo

[28:36] Artists’ feedback

[30:13] Blockchain technology Imprimo uses

[33:16] Success stories

[33:45] The biggest barriers to solving copyright issues

[38:20] Types of content on Imprimo

[39:37] The importance of legality and ethics in Web3

[44:17] Simplifying the concept

[46:57] Connection to Access Copyright and Prescient Innovations

[48:37] Promising projects in the Web3 space

[51:24] How to contact Roanie

 

DISCLAIMER: yWhales is not affiliated with YPO but at this time only allow for YPO, YPO Gold, and YNG members due to privacy & confidentiality. Support and production for today’s episode was done by Truth Work Media. Nothing in the podcast constitutes professional and/or financial advice, nor does any information on the podcast constitute a comprehensive or complete statement of the matters discussed or the law relating thereto.