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Design Requirement

DR1 - Transparent music licensing structures

A decentralized DRM system for the music industry must provide transparent music licensing structures, replacing pre-Internet structures with many intermediaries.

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DR1
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Blockchain-based digital rights management systems: Design principles for the music industry
Timestamp
2026-07-16T00:00:00+00:00
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design-knowledge/drm-music-industry-dr1.md
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Design requirement DR1: Transparent music licensing structures

A decentralized DRM system for the music industry must provide transparent music licensing structures, replacing pre-Internet structures with many intermediaries.

Source paper

This design requirement is proposed by Blockchain-based digital rights management systems: Design principles for the music industry (Raffaele Fabio Ciriello, Alexandra Cecilie Gjol Torbensen, Magnus Rotvit Perlt Hansen, Christoph Mueller-Bloch, 2023).

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DP1 - Public-ledger metadata storage

The system should store music rights metadata on a distributed ledger using a public blockchain to make licensing structures transparently visible to everyone, so that rights owners can claim royalties.

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DP2 - Consensus-validated metadata on a permissioned chain

The system should validate music metadata with a consensus mechanism on a permissioned blockchain and assign a unique identifier to rights owners, so that labels and publishers can ensure consistency and completeness.

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DP3 - Smart-contract stablecoin royalty enforcement

The system should algorithmically enforce royalty payout via stablecoin through a smart contract, enabling efficient and transparent payouts.

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Blockchain-based digital rights management systems: Design principles for the music industry

Analyzing the music industry, the paper proposes design principles for blockchain-based DRM that deliver transparent licensing, consistent and complete rights metadata, and efficient transparent royalty payout - by storing metadata on a public ledger, validating it via consensus on a permissioned chain, and enforcing payouts via stablecoin smart contracts.

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Transparent music licensing structures

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A decentralized DRM system for the music industry must provide transparent music licensing structures, replacing pre-Internet structures with many intermediaries.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-023-00628-5

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  • design-requirement
  • drm-music
  • drm-music-industry
  • intellectual-property
  • marketplace
  • royalties
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