Fuente: Wipo "digitalization" 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.