What copyright issues need to be taken care of while selling digital assets online ?

Even I thought about time stamping and storing the items, but it would be too easy to hack, but can be a first level soluton. Storing info in Meta-data is a good idea. But I think these checks and precautions should be enough to get started, till the assets get worth millions ;). Will be implementing all these solutions, thanks for the pointers.

Btw, Copyright is perfect use case for blockchains, interesting what Kodak is doing with KodakCoin
(https://www.nasdaq.com/article/kodak-the-blockchain-and-cryptocurrency-how-kodak-is-tapping-into-technology-cm911406)

Hey, thanks for replying on the thread.

I didn't know about Nathan Barry, checked him out and his body of work looks pretty amazing. And I think Amazon and George Orwell's case is an interesting situation for digital rights of consumers who have paid for something, a marketplace platform like Amazon, some third party selling without owning the rights and who really is liable when the copright law is infringed.

And I agree with creating value first and Im not really thinking about monetising any of it for now. My concern is not really with people who would be downloading or using my content for free. Being a hardcore opensource beleiver at heart , I would infact encourage it by focussing on providing disproportiationate amount of value first and foremost and capturing maybe a tiny slice of it later down the road. I would have no intention of going after people who would be using those assets like how Shutterstock goes after them, as I personally have benefitted a lot from open pool marketplaces like unsplash or opensource liberaries of code.I intend to keep it free for 99% and later charge from 1% who can pay. That's not the issue. I am trying to take a case scenario of some legal things being done by some copyright trolls (like patent trolls) which are immoral.

Im thinking through potential issues that could arise due the fact that few erronious people or entities might try to claim they have copyright over something which they find on my platform, which in reality wouldn't be the case as all the content will be developed inhouse. Now maybe Im being overtly paranoid , but still to be on safer side of those situations and to ward off potential disputes with those ill meaning entities, how can I keep a record of proof for myself. Like maybe keeping all the psd, eps and other files. Having a dispute resolution button for each item. Explicit copyright resolution notices on website. Date records for the files. All this to protect myself from those erronius entities. Am I making sense ? Do you suggest I shouldn't really worry about those edge case sceanrios for now ?