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CMW to examine music’s blockchain revolution

TORONTO – The ‘blockchain revolution’ in the music sector will be front and centre at Canadian Music Week.Organizers have announced a keynote entitled ‘Blockchain Revolution: Finally! Musicians Will Be Compensated Fairly For The Value They Create!’ with Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott, to be followed by a panel super session called ‘Is Blockchain The End To All Needs?’, on May 7 starting at 10:05 AM ET.With the first era of recorded music, artists were beholden to the Labels who took most of the value. With the digital revolution, artists had so give up even more to big technology companies like...