Blockchain technology offers solutions to reward artists for content, especially musicians.
I am a bit of a music nut – music is a constant companion which entertains, excites, reminisces, inspires and so forth – most people have a quasi relationship with their music.
Who is the techy in Github developing the music platform? Steem can be distributed so effectively with this!
The reason was that the distributable proceeds were all soaked up by underserving intermediaries. The copy/paste brigade earned more than the performers.
Deezer, Spotify, Soundcloud, 123Music, Mixcloud, Youtube etc all give me access to music for absolutely nothing. My Adblocker ensures I am commercial free.
Blockchain technology can deliver a song through a ‘smart’ contract between artist and customer. It is envisaged that the artist could receive up to 95% of all revenues.
Piracy still hangs there as a threat with so many recording and distribution formats. One solution mooted is that a blockchain song can only be played on a .bc site with proof of purchase.
It cannot be too tough to record a live data file can it? Social Media platforms are seeking to circumvent this practice via alternative market mechanics.
BitTunes is seeking to reward consumers through a sort of ‘curation’ model.
PeerTracks is attempting to commercialise the fan base of an artist; there is also the idea of producing ‘Notes’ – like a cryptocurrency which is linked to an artist and gains value along with record sales and artist’s profile.
UjoMusic beta-tested their platform last year with “Tiny Human,” a song by award winning British singer and songwriter Imogen Heap, and it plans to go mainstream in early 2017.
Heap, herself a technologist, is pioneering her own blockchain-based offering, Mycelia, a fair-trade music business that gives artists more control over how their songs and associated data circulate among fans and other musicians.
One of the major hurdles which any Blockchain technology will have to address is price. We are too spoiled by free access. Why change?
Who is the techy in Github developing the music platform?
Still, much as I enjoy the access I am afforded by music sites, the current thinking that music is free is an attitude which must be wrong.
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I've thought the same thing for a long time, but figuring out the exact right model, a bit trickier of course. A steemit + spotify solution could be revolutionary. But steemit first really needs to figure out a way to monetize viral-type / high-quality content that attracts interaction in perpetuity, as opposed to just the first 24 hours, and to a lesser extent the first 30 days only. As for piracy, amazing to think you actually reward the artist directly each time you listen to their music, watch their video, read their stories, etc in a completely censorship-resistant fashion. That's exactly what made our youtube channel work so well, except for the flagging/blocking/censorship that made us finally give up as they tossed years of our hard work down the drain overnight.
Thanks so much for replying Dude, much appreciated. I am probably about 5 times your age but music has always been a great part of my life - brother is a DJ in Ibiza - Eagles been home (I was not there!!!), blah
Anyway, the Imogen Heap model is interesting as is the Peertracks 'Notes' concept.
Piracy has to be addressed more strongly as there will be a replicating system in Thailand in 2 minutes flat - no copyright recognition.
If you can play it you can replicate it.
There are other publishing/contract issues so this system, if it can have legs, needs to be built from the foundations up - there can be no migration because the record labels do not know their own contracts and the IT is a basket case!
Anyway, thanks again - appreciate it very much
Namaste!
yeah, replication just to take credit from authors certainly is a tricky issue as well. btw, how do you figure you're 5 times my age, unless you think I'm 10?! lol
This was actually me about 8 years ago (youtube hasn't gotten around to blocking this one yet), boy how time flies...
This is funny funny as fuck ... you are almost an Aussie .. .compliment .. I am a Brit but have barely lived there - I am early (mid) 50's and am one of the black sheep of steemia who just says what I think - there is no censorship (really) - it is the same as everywhere else! I am no anarchist but love the arguments - great to have listened to your track ... I am surprised that Pfizer do not have a pill for Pauliosis!
thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it! lol - it sounds like we share at least a few similar ideas/beliefs. I like people who "just say what they think" without B.S. No one grows by having others blow smoke up their ass!
I've come across quite a few great articles on steemit along those lines. Here's one you may also enjoy, if you haven't seen it yet:
https://steemit.com/psychology/@krnel/standing-up-and-standing-out-the-fear-of-ostracism-is-worse-than-death#@alexpmorris/re-krnel-standing-up-and-standing-out-the-fear-of-ostracism-is-worse-than-death-20170105t235802790z
I did read @(farr)krnel's post - it is a seriously good bit of writing - and it pulls apart all the aspects extremely well - too well because there are some bear traps in there which are very real for me.
Have a read of this - this is one of the things that gets me into trouble. After writing conciliatory remarks and getting shit back from this arse who ruined one of my posts - it was about Fracking and he is a Texan - wilfully ignorant -so eventually I wrote this post - I still quite like it:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@ebryans/english-trying-to-add-value-texan-you-decide-whale-orca-behaviour-sociopathic
Just chiming in in appreciation of your raising the music issue from the blockchain potential perspective. Though the technicalities are over my head, the issue is a critical one - for any intellectual property / artists of course, but with respect to music, the streaming services do not provide a sustainable model for musicians to be sure, and blockchain technology appears to have the potential for a solution from the ground up.
But regarding piracy - perhaps there always has been and always will be a %age lost to the aether so to speak (just as large stores include a %age overhead due to theft)
My own philosophy, whether justifiable to 3rd parties or not, is if the artist is dead, far as I'm concerned, it has been released unto the aether and I might feel free to avail myself of it. Otherwise, I like to support those artists I appreciate in fare exchange - preferably with no middleman - and the steem platform would be a great way to facilitate that.
Cheers