I'm super excited about being on Steemit. It's only been a few days and I see how revolutionary this platform is for us content creators - enabling us essentially to make a decent living by sharing our content. I'M HOOKED!
As a singer/songwriter, I am very grateful to the creator of 
BUT, as you might have noticed, the IPFS link enables anyone to download the content - that I'm still ok with it. However, what if that someone uploads my content and starts monetizing it? That's not so cool in my view.
So what should be done about the copyright and protecting music/content creators?
It've very evident that with the creation of blockchain we've entered a paradigm shift. And I embrace it wholeheartedly!
Still the question stares us in the face - how can we protect our works of art to which we've invested money, sweat and tears?
A couple of suggestions come to mind:
- Creative Commons License - this is nothing new and we could recycle the idea on the blockchain - I think...
- Enable users to embed a digital footprint (something like an ISRC code) into the sound file before uploading it. It should have something like a smart contract attached to it - which specifies who are the copyright holders and what are the splits.
is already doing it with their licenses - although there I have a questions - what if the splits owners are not members of the Musicoin platform?
Your suggestions?
I'd love to hear what you are your ideas. After all, we are all creating this new ecosystem together and these questions will need to be addressed sooner or later. So why not get on with it asap?
Looking forward to your comments :)