Abstract: Systems and methods for creating and managing decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) using distributed ledgers are provided. An investor can submit a proposal for disbursement of funds from the DAO for the creation of digital objects. The DAO can be associated with a set of voting share tokens that can be provided to the investors according to their contributions to the DAO. When investors use their tokens to vote on the proposal, a smart contract deployed to a distributed ledger for the DAO can review the votes and the corresponding tokens to determine if the proposal is approved. If so, funds from the DAO can be provided to content creators for the creation of digital objects that can be published to a digital object marketplace. Financial distributions resulting from the sale of these digital objects can be automatically provided to investors according to their respective voting share tokens.

Abstract: Systems and methods for managing digital rights associated with digital objects using distributed ledgers are provided. A digital object marketplace receives a request to access a digital object via an interface provided by the digital object marketplace. The marketplace queries the user's digital wallet for a license token generated by a smart contract for the digital object deployed in a distributed ledger. If the user does not have a license token, the marketplace prompts the user to purchase one. If the user submits a request to purchase a license token, a payment is transferred, using the smart contract, from the user's digital wallet to the digital wallet of the owner of the digital object. Further, the license token is added to the user's digital wallet. This enables the user to access the digital object via the interface.

Abstract: Systems and methods for managing intellectual property and financial distributions associated with digital objects using distributed ledgers are provided. A digital object marketplace receives a request to obtain a license token for a digital object. License tokens for the digital object are generated by a smart contract deployed in a distributed ledger. The digital object is also associated with an owner token generated when the digital object is published to the digital object marketplace, or with a recipient digital wallet. The digital object marketplace, using the smart contract, transfers a payment from a requestor's digital wallet to the holder of the owner token or to the recipient digital wallet and the transfer is recorded in the distributed ledger. A license token for the digital object is provided to the requestor's digital wallet and the transaction associated with the license token is further recorded in the distributed ledger.