Getting up to speed

If you want to become an expert when it comes to smart contracts, you have to start with a simple project to refresh your skills. We're going to create a copyright marketplace smart contract to upload legal documents to the blockchain that guarantee that some piece of content is protected by copyright law and cannot be copied. Without further ado, let's get right to it!

Planning the marketplace idea

Here is the way copyright law works in simple terms:

1. You register a piece of content that could be a document, text, an image, a video, or any kind of creation that you did by yourself with a unique identifier, publicly so that people can confirm your authority.
2. The people that want to use your content...