1. 1.3 Report Structure

1.3 Report Structure

The structure of this report is a combination of a law review article, whitepaper, and an academic research paper. We chose this structure because this is an interdisciplinary eld of research at the intersection of legal, music, computer science and engineering disciplines. The structure also grew out of the needs of our contributors and our desire to include certain features of Horst Treiblmaier’s blockchain case study structure.¹³ Specifically, the Introduction, Research Methodology, and Discussion sections were added to our report to better conform with Treiblmaier’s blockchain case study structure.¹⁴

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Part I)Background Research > 1)Literature Review > 1.1) Scoping Review
• 1.2 Research Questions
• 1.3 Report Structure
• 1.4 Research Methodology
• 1.5 Music Business Perspective
• 1.6 Legal Perspective
• 1.7 Automation Perspective
• 1.8 Value Web Perspective
• 2) Music Industry Supply Chain and Work Registration Standards
• 3) Legal Frameworks Primer
• 4) Music Licensing Primer
• 5) Technology Primer
• Part II) Ricardian Contract > 6) Motivation
• 7) Decentralized Media Platforms
• 8) Methods
• 9) Discussion
• Conclusion
• References
• Appendix