Fecha de publicación: 03/11/2016 Fuente: Wipo "digitalization" Systems and methods for managing media, such as digital content, using block chain technology are described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods provide an electronic platform that facilitates the purchase of rights to digital content items. The electronic platform includes a marketplace sub-system that facilitates a brokering of rights to digital content items between owners of the digital content items and recipients of the digital content items, and a transaction sub-system that performs block chain transactions associated with transfers of rights the digital content items from owners of the digital content items and recipients of the digital content items.