About us

Our mission

 

Our mission is to develop programs and web based technology that support authors rights; specifically, our purpose focuses on enabling the commercialization and registration of claims to copyright protected content created for use online or within virtual environments.

 

 

We intend to exert a progressive influence on the issues concerning authors control, access, renumeration and enforcement of their content within web based or virtual environments.

 

Our Leadership

 

Tamiko Rochelle Franklin

Founder of VIPO and the IIUU; Platform Architect

 

Steven Tauber

Chief Technology Officer, Technology Project Manager and Platform Development Team Leader

 

 

Our Purpose

 

The Purposes for which the Organization was formed are exclusively charitable, educational, literary, artistic, scientific, and cultural, including the support of users as intellectual property owners and the human rights of users, particularly in the context of online platforms and virtual environments; VIPO's mission is promoting user centric policies and practices concerning the use and development of virtual property including intellectual property rights protectable data; personality rights protectable data; and privacy rights protected data. VIPO implements its purpose and mission by performing research, designing technology systems, and managing international organization of users, platform account holders, domain name or website operators, and content creators.

 

To these ends, the Organization:

 

(a) Encourages the recognition of virtual property as personality rights protecable data and intellectual property rights protectable data that is created within or for use within virtual environments, such as Internet based websites, worlds, games, and the like, by organizing users globally; conducting lectures and seminars on the subject, as well as through publications, forums, and workshops;

(b) Exerts a progressive influence on the issues concerning content creation, transfer, and labeling in web based or virtual environments;

(c) Maintains records of intellectual properties that relate to these purposes;

(d) Provides advisory support in the area of intellectual property rights; and

(e) Conducts any and all other activities as shall from time to time be found appropriate in connection with the foregoing and as are permitted by the Certificate of Incorporation of the Organization and lawful for a corporation which is organized under the Massachusetts Not-For-Profit Corporation Law and is qualified as exempt from taxation under section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or any successor provision thereto.

Our programs

 

The mission of VIPO is to exert a progressive influence on the issues surrounding registration, enforcement, and policy in the area of virtual property.

 

VIPOs mission is to advance the rights of users to receive compensation for commercial use of their virtual intellectual property and personality rights protected data including remuneration of the labor to create and develop virtual property rights protected data commercialized by AI enabled systems.

 

We develop and promote human rights based perspectives of issues that are related to user generated content publication and distribution of including advocating for a human right to personality attributes such as name, image, voice and network.

 

We advocate for economic rights whcih support human creativity in the new economy including a right to compensation for data use and labor, a neutral internet, online dispute resolution, and account recovery, as well as the social conditions to support creation such as safety, access to food, water, shelter, and electricity.

 

We fulfill these purposes through our programs which are focused on development and implementation of technology and policies supporting fulfillment of our mission.

 

The THREE TINY THINGS! program is focused on 1) promotes user rights as human rights 2) focuses on the economic empowerment of internet users and 3) enables the organization of users as a global community.

 

The program has three components:

 

Our user compensation movement Occupy Online 1) promotes creation of original protectable content by individuals 2) enables economic empowerment of creators of original works  by encouraging indepedent creators and individual accountholders to participate in developing Fair Trade Data Standards as well as technology projects implementing virtual property rights management and 3) advocates for reform to traditional systems of protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights to reflect information age issues including online enforcement mechanisms and compensation strategies for use in training AI products. 

 

Our User Union organizes creators and individual accountholders. The Union advocates for policy reforms and platform practices to reflect protection of virtual property rights in user data and recognition of a need for compensation for content monetization.

 

Our Fair Trade Data program centers around the creation of Fair Trade Data Standards by our User Union members. The Fair Trade Data Standards, once completed, will result in a dataset that is user approved, licensed, and enforceable. 

 

If you are interested in joining these programs, or would like to learn how you or your organization can support our efforts, please complete the form on our Contacts page.

 

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