StartupRealities

StartupRealities No 134 CornerIP is an intellectual property (IP) agency that has developed proprietary image processing algorithms that integrate in strategic locations on photos and graphs the name and logo of a company, so that they cannot be cropped out without detracting from the value of the image. The name and logo blend in with the rest of the image by being organically incorporated into the original photo. CEO QUOTE "You know those stock images with the copyright holder's logos strewn diagonally across the entire photo? Well, we avoid this format like the plague. It's nonsense. Instead, we still position the name of the owner on the image but our AI algorithm picks for it a prime unobtrusive space next to the focus point of the image, usually on a corner billboard, door sign or plaque that appear to be part of the image (see photo below). Thus the IP is protected but the image itself is not mangled beyond recognition," said CornerIP founder and CEO Corn...

StartupRealities No 32 ModernMovieMaker is a film modernisation company which converts old movies with expired copyright into modern productions. The company typically uses a narrator woven into the storyline. The narrator scenes are shot in a way and style that resembles the original movie, creating an artistic continuum. Narrator scenes allow cutting out superfluous original scenes and speeding up the pace of the movie to suit modern audiences. COPYRIGHT ModernMovieMaker works with two lists of movies which are indisputably in the public domain: 1) All motion pictures  made and shown in the USA before 1925 are now free of copyright, as the 75-year copyright (extended by a further 20 years) has now expired. 2) Movies whose copyright has not been renewed in accordance with past intellectual property statutes. CEO QUOTE "The narrator is everything in our productions: a guide, a pace-setter and a pace-maker," said company founder and CEO Mo Mokin. "We make sure...

StartupRealities No 17 SpaceBonanza Limited is a moonshot-project company that searches for extraterrestrial (ET) civilisations in space with the goal of adopting their novel technology and commercialising ET intellectual property on Earth. The company finances the deployment of powerful telescopes to search for intelligent life beyond Earth and transmit encoded messages, with the expectation that it will have the first-mover advantage when contact with aliens is eventually established. SCIENCE The company focuses on exploring the habitable zone of nearby stars, i.e. the region in star systems with planets close enough to their star to sustain liquid water on the planet surface. SpaceBonanza transmits encoded messages to the nearby stars with science questions such as "How can you achieve time travel?" and "How do you utilise quantum entanglement?" TIMELINE Investors are bankrolling the company for a period of 35 years as SpaceBonanza is not expected to gene...