How streaming will continue to change everything in the music business

[Art Munson]

Fascinating article at Billboard. A long article but worth a read. Here’s an excerpt:

“As a once-vertical industry disintegrates and democratises, the lower costs and increased options for producing and bringing music to market – coupled with the revitalisation of music rights and the new economic models and opportunities presented by streaming – is fundamentally revolutionising the economics and operations of the industry at its core.”

The full article here.

I also believe with the exploration into blockchain technology (remember Bitcoin) for rights management and copyright protection times are achangin’!

https://abovethelaw.com/2018/02/how-blockchain-just-may-transform-online-copyright-protection/

[Art Munson]

Bump

[TechNoiZ]

I definitely see the potential of blockchain as a tool of copyright – it could essentially provide a singular, ‘original’ digital file, but it might take the whole industry to adopt the technology in order to give a backbone to the idea.

[abby]

interesting to read that they offer free distribution, as opposed to CD Baby (and others) cost to distribute..

[TechNoiZ]

Remember this thread a couple of years ago … looks like the Digital Art world has made the leap to using Blockchain as a way to enshrine ownership of a digital asset.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56362174

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