Camp Network: Protecting creators in an AI-driven world

Intellectual property rights are managed and protected through a patchwork of outdated laws, siloed IP registries, manual licensing processes, and weak enforcement mechanisms that were mostly built for the pre-digital era. IP registration is slow and jurisdiction-bound (e.g., U.S. Copyright Office), infringement detection is reactive and expensive, and asserting rights often requires costly legal action -- increasingly prohibiting small creators from fair participation as the means of copying creative works accelerate. 

With generative AI, this system is being strained to a breaking point: Models are trained on vast datasets scraped from the internet—part of which is protected IP—with little transparency, consent, or compensation. Legal frameworks like “fair use” are ambiguous in this new context, and courts have yet to set clear precedent. As a result, creators are losing control over their work, and AI companies face growing legal and reputational risk without scalable tools to acquire training data and manage rights responsibly. A prime example is the mounting discourse surrounding the exploding popularity of AI-created Studio Ghibli-style portraits (despite creator Hayao Miyazaki’s outspoken concerns about AI art). 

Today, we’re announcing that BCAP is co-leading Camp Network’s $25M Series A financing, with $30M total raised, to support the team’s mission of transforming creative work into verifiable and programmable IP. Camp Network offers creators a universal, tamper-proof registry that provides a simple and scalable way to publicly assert ownership, track usage, and signal licensing preferences—globally and instantly. Camp’s layer 1 blockchain enables programmable licensing via smart contracts, letting creators define and automate terms (e.g., training allowed, commercial use prohibited, royalties required) and making it easy for companies to query and respect those rights at scale. 

Unlike legacy systems, Camp Network is transparent, interoperable, and built for digital speed. It doesn’t replace existing laws—but it gives rights holders and AI developers clarity, consent infrastructure, and verifiable records, allowing them to operate ethically, reduce legal risk, and build trust.

One way to think about it is as a new consumer-focused blockchain with an open-source alternative to Shutterstock built in natively, enabling IP to become composable in a similar way to open-source software. Just as open source software has grown through re-use and remixing to power most of the web, we believe bringing scalable composability to IP can foster creative abundance, empower users to own their own data, and make generative AI an accelerant to creators rather than a threat.

Camp Network already boasts an impressive ecosystem with more than 60 native teams, including novel content networks with thousands of titles (example: Rewarded TV) and platforms like Remaster who provide leading web3 creators with secure, compliant and scalable IP monetization services. We’ve been particularly impressed by the team, led by founders Nirav Murthy and James Chi, who have shown themselves to be world-class ecosystem builders. Through engaging with teams in their ecosystem, it became clear that Nirav and James take a very hands-on, support-oriented approach to business development, which has allowed them to bootstrap an exciting consumer-focused ecosystem. Combined with their vision and technology to enable a better world for IP owners, these strengths position them to become a key player in modernizing the IP system and empowering creators around the world.