Rebooting the music industry — Part 1

It’s time to be serious. 
There is a reason my personal profile is found under /internetmusic on most social media out there including here at @internetmusic.
 I have since 2006 carried a dream — all creators of music should get fully paid for their work. 
 In 2006 I called it (when first defined) “The digital clearing house” today it’s called Internet Music and under Internet Music Now (http://internetmusicnow.com) we will over the next year invite everybody with their own copyright to join the not-for-profit organisation Internet Music (now) starting early 2017. 
 We have been building the services since 2010 and for the last 20 months we have concentrated on the distributed ledger services and technology (aka block-chain). 
 I have had countless discussion and defining talks with major and central profiles in the music industry as well as participating in panels and groups all over the world. And we are now slowly emerging from self imposed stealth.
 We have successfully defined and carried out trials for integrating the existing back catalogues in our services and are now starting to build proof of concept solutions. All new copyright registrations are in closed beta testing.
 As we all know, — the major challenges is the failure of previous registrations to accurately register metadata and consequently correcting this will be the challenge of the next decade.
 There is a lot of royalties floating around out there (typically 24% of recordings and 27% of musical works are correctly paid from the “long tail” according to a major music industry company).
 It’s time for a reboot with Internet Music, providing more money, faster — for creators of music…