Registering your photos with the U.S. Copyright office is about the only sure-fire way you have of recouping monetary damages if a person or organization steals your photo.

A new service called Binded now makes registering for that copyright extremely easy. To register your copyright, you simply upload images to Binded, click “register copyright,” pay the fee and you’re done.

Unlike other copyright registering services, Binded won’t charge you extra fees for registering your copyright. All you pay are the fees charged by the U.S. Copyright Office ($35 for a single image, $55 for a batch). Indeed, they claim that thanks to their long-sighted funders, they can offer U.S. Copyright registration “free forever” (make of that promise what you will).

But what makes Binded interesting is that it does more than simply register your copyright.

As you upload images, you’re also sending them to the Binded “vault” where a blockchain record of that image is created. Blockchain is a database technology that essentially allows you to create a digital “original”–it’s the technology that enables cyber currencies such as Bitcoin to function. Using blockchain, Binded is able to verify that your photo is the original and then scour the web for unauthorized uses of images in its vault. The blockchain record also serves as a digital fingerprint to prove you own a given digital photo, alongside your copyright.

In fact, Binded isn’t all that new. They began their life as Blockai and originally launched solely as a service to create blockchain records for digital images. With the addition of copyright registration, they’ve bolstered the service to provide something of a one-two punch.