Teia @ TezCon 2025, Copyrights and Curation Profile Features

Teia at TezCon 2025

In June, Teia joined the Tezos creative community in Seattle for TezCon 2025 — a multi-day celebration blending music, visual art, and collaboration both in-person and online. Held at Kenyon Hall on June 28, the event featured live music, 74 curated art submissions, TezTones music match-ups, and a cross-continental live collaboration with the Bosque Gracias Residency in Argentina. Around the main event, several days of community-rich activities unfolded, making the whole experience feel more like an artist residency than a typical conference.

The energy was warm, collaborative, and refreshingly unpolished — artists sketching on napkins, musicians trading riffs, and visitors mingling with creators they’d only met online. This atmosphere fostered genuine connections and creative exchanges, setting the stage for a memorable event.

Following TezCon, @ryangtanaka announced that monthly meet-ups will begin if you happen to be near Seattle and want to connect with other digital artists, you’re welcome to join our local meetup group.

Copyrights and Curation Tabs

On June 25, 2025, Teia rolled out two profile updates that quietly extend the platform’s mission of artist empowerment.

The new Copyright feature isn’t just a label — it’s a workflow. Artists can now mint a work, register it with an on-chain licensing agreement, and list it for sale knowing the terms are permanently recorded on the Tezos blockchain. Registration lets creators choose exactly which rights a buyer gets — such as reproduction, broadcasting, or derivative works — and optionally add custom clauses. Works minted on Teia or other Tezos contracts can be “verified,” while off-chain or cross-chain works can be registered if the creator can prove authorship. Once in place, the registration becomes a public, immutable record that strengthens provenance and attribution, even though enforcement still depends on traditional legal channels. For a detailed guide, see the TEIA Copyright Registration and Licensing Guide.

Meanwhile, the new Curation tab gives collectors and curators a space to showcase works they’re selling but didn’t create, making secondary market activity more visible and giving curators a place to express taste as a creative act in its own right.

Together, these features push Teia further toward a transparent, artist-controlled ecosystem — one where both creation and curation have a place in the public profile.