ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Artif. Intell.
Sec. AI for Human Learning and Behavior Change
Volume 8 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/frai.2025.1655709
This article is part of the Research TopicNew Trends in AI-Generated Media and SecurityView all articles
Decentralizing Video Copyright Protection: A Blockchain Enabled Novel Framework with Performance Evaluation
Provisionally accepted
- VIT-AP University Campus, Amaravati, India
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Digital content, including images and videos, is increasingly ruling the online world, and so multimedia services form a part of this modern life. However, the digital resources face significant problems, especially regarding copyright infringement. In such an instance, any modification without authority infringes intellectual property rights. Based on Inter Planetary File System (IPFS) and blockchain technology, a decentralized and distributed framework has been proposed in this study for dealing with insecurity over digital assets and openness of multimedia resources. In this respect, secure, transparent, and immutable transactions in regard to the transfer and ownership of creative works have been facilitated by the use of such a framework. This paper proposes novel decentralized and Blockchain enabled framework to address the problem of video copyright protection by employing solidity based smart contract in a Ethereum network, that allows the content creators to register their videos. The designed smart contract performs copyright checks and release copyright disputes by generating and comparing perceptual hash's (Phash) for original video and modified video. Phash techniques play a crucial role in multimedia content analysis, particularly in verifying the integrity and similarity of the video data under various transformations. Additionally, the framework generates Inter Planetary File System (IPFS) main values that signifies the ownership of the video content. Then by comparing the phash values, IPFS and similarly score in public Blockchain environment i.e. Ethereum. The framework performance result obtained by simulating the contract Application Binary Interface (ABI) or Json file in a Hyperledger caliper environment and that signifies the better state of art performances such as for registered video the latency found 5.02s and throughput is 409.87. similarly, for the verify video the latency found 4.57s and throughput is 484.23.
Keywords: Perceptual hashing, Inter Planetary File System, Similarity analysis, Video copyright protection, Blockchain
Received: 28 Jun 2025; Accepted: 25 Jul 2025.
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* Correspondence: Nihar Ranjan Pradhan, VIT-AP University Campus, Amaravati, India
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