EY, Microsoft launch blockchain solution for Media & Entertainment industry

ANI  |  New Delhi [India] 

With an aim to streamline the costly and time-consuming processes in entertainment rights and royalties, today, EY and launched a network for content rights and

and its game publisher partners will be the first ones to deploy the solution within gaming. Ubisoft, one of the world's leading game publishers and a Microsoft gaming partner, will be one of the early adopters of this solution.

The rights and solution enables increased trust and transparency between industry players, significantly reduces operational inefficiencies in the rights and process, and eliminates the need for costly manual reconciliation and partner reviews. In addition, the solution aims to provide near of sales transactions to all participants in the and enables them to react to market needs faster and more effectively.

EY and Microsoft designed the solution to serve any industry where intellectual property or assets are licensed to other parties and where the creators are paid royalties based on royalty agreements. Within this value chain - which can include authors, song writers, production houses, developers and more - the intellectual property generates millions of transactions aggregating to billions of dollars per month in royalties to be paid.

EY and Microsoft are currently deploying the solution with Microsoft's key partners and will explore opening the solution to other partner organizations as a general for royalties-related transactions on everything from software to

The underlying network is built using the and Microsoft's and and ensures complete confidentiality of partnership agreements across entities.

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First Published: Thu, June 21 2018. 13:40 IST