Saving Independent Artists: Licensing Solutions with Daud Zulfacar

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Unsigned Berlin

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At Unsigned Berlin, we are working to provide a platform to independent musicians based in Berlin. Each week sees a new episode with a new guest that will discuss their creative process and their industry insights experiences in music to our hosts, Sebastian Sheath and, for German language episodes, Malaika. Podcast information and social media: https://linktr.ee/unsignedberlin

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Saving Independent Artists: Licensing Solutions with Daud Zulfacar | S4E13

Unsigned Berlin

47 minutes 48 seconds

1 year ago

Saving Independent Artists: Licensing Solutions with Daud Zulfacar | S4E13

For this episode of Unsigned Berlin we sit down with Daud Zulfacar, entrepreneur and web3.0 fanatic. Daud founded a web3.0 music licensing company, License Rocks, in 2017 which received over 1 million dollars in seed funding and backing from the EU. Now he is working on a new transparent ticketing system that can better service artists, fans, and venues, cutting out ticket scalpers and gamifying pricing. We talk about all this and more with Daud, including touching on how streaming could be improved, where independent artists are being taken advantage of, and much more!

(00:00) Introduction

(00:09) What was License Rocks

(11:29) Why it didn’t work

(17:57 - Issues with the current licensing model

(22:50) Democratised, transparent streaming models

(26:58) Ticketing with Blessed

(40:00) Breaking down the current ticketing model

(43:58) Daud’s daily blockchain apps

(45:44) Advice for Web3.0 entrepreneurs

License Rocks: https://license.rocks/

Daud on X: https://twitter.com/zulfacar

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Produced by Unsigned Berlin

Edited by Yannick Solandt

Hosted by Sebastian Sheath

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