This Machine Kills Copyright: Folk Music and Decentralization
How should copyright laws be applied to assets uploaded to a blockchain? Is it fair to use the folk tradition of sharing songs to build a catalogue that sells for half a billion dollars? We explore these questions with our music + web3 reporter MacEagon Voyce.
For this special episode, we're bringing you a recording of our Twitter space exploring the music industry, copyright laws, on-chain music, and folk values. MacEagon Voyce and Neil Berkeley join to discuss what it means for music to be folk and if folk icons like Bob Dylan genuinely lived up to that label.
Read Keagon's exploration on whether web3 and blockchain can usher in a new era of common ownership in creative endeavors like music more akin to the folk era:
https://www.decential.io/articles/this-machine-kills-copyright-minting-a-bob-dylan-song-as-a-way-to-resurrect-folk-traditions