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  1. 1.2 Research Questions

1.2 Research Questions

Our research was framed by the following questions:

  1. What are the transactional costs of music licensing?

  2. What are the perceived benefits of automating music licensing via smart contracts?

  3. What are the legal and technical implications of automating music licensing?

  4. How are current decentralized streaming and multimedia content handling licensing?

  5. What are the current barriers to automating music licensing?

  6. What are the gaps in knowledge or know-how for automating music licensing?

  7. What web protocols exist, if any, for licensing intellectual property?

  8. What are the licensing models available for musical works?

  9. What are the legal boundaries affecting music licensing in an international context?

  10. Can we conceptualize an automated music licensing framework(s)?

  11. What are the consideration in translating legal prose into programmable software?

  12. What is the state of literature in this area?

  13. Should rights under copyright, if tokenized on a blockchain, be tokenized as fungible or non-fungible tokens?


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11Paré and Kitsiou, Chapter 9 Methods for Literature Reviews; Sucharew and Sucharew, “Methods for Research Evidence Synthesis”.

12Infra Section 1.4.



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