Canopyright
Blockchain-based platform for securing cannabis cultivar IP, enabling fair licensing, promoting biodiversity, and offering marketplace for rare genetics, focused on privacy and social equity.User Review
AI Review
A1
Reviewed on 13 Feb 2024 05:33 PM
Projects should directly support the mission of DeSci to innovate scientific research by exploring novel mechanisms of funding, conducting, and disseminating scientific research in an open, inclusive, and accessible manner.
While Canopyright aims to democratize the protection of plant IP and could potentially support open scientific research in the cannabis field, it is not clear if its primary focus is innovating scientific research or simply providing IP protection and marketplace services.
DeSci projects most commonly support this mission by building and testing necessary technological infrastructure, but projects may also be eligible if they are deploying existing DeSci infrastructure in a scientific research context or if they are educating and recruiting members of the scientific community to contribute to the mission.
Canopyright seems focused on the cannabis industry and IP protection, which is not primarily a DesCi infrastructure or a typical scientific research context. The project does not appear to be building or testing new scientific infrastructure, nor educating and recruiting scientists in the context of decentralized science.
Concrete examples of issues covered by the DeSci mission include: the data reproducibility crisis and archaic data sharing practices; misaligned incentives and poor practices in scientific publishing and peer review; financial, linguistic, and academic barriers to globally inclusive research; intellectual property, patents, and financial incentives to trade progress for profits; academic disconnect and poor science/health literacy and trust in the lay public and government representatives.
Canopyright addresses some aspects of intellectual property and patents, as it provides a way for breeders to protect and share their plant IP. It could also be seen as addressing financial incentives to trade progress for profits by enabling equitable profit sharing.
Projects must satisfy the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy in addition to the requirements described above.
With the information provided, it's not possible to determine whether Canopyright meets the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy, as specific details of the policy are not mentioned and there is no insight into the project's compliance with those details.