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Finally -- Finally, number five: there are a whole number of creators of content who don't receive fair compensation,
最后--最后，第五點：有許多內容的創造者并沒有得到公平的報酬，
because the system for intellectual property is broken.
因為知識產權系統遭到了損害。
It was broken by the first era of the internet. Take music.
在互聯網的第一個時代就遭到損害。就拿音樂來說。
Musicians are left with crumbs at the end of the whole food chain.
音樂家們只在食物鏈的末端獲得一些殘渣碎屑。
You know, if you were a songwriter, 25 years ago, you wrote a hit song,
在25年前，如果你是一個作曲家，寫出一首流行的歌曲，
it got a million singles, you could get royalties of around 45,000 dollars.
賣出一百萬首單曲，你可以獲得大約45000美元的報酬。
Today, you're a songwriter, you write a hit song, it gets a million streams,
而現在，作曲家的你寫出一首流行的歌曲，被百萬次播放，
you don't get 45k, you get 36 dollars, enough to buy a nice pizza.
你并不能得到45000美元，你只能得到36美元，足以買一個不錯的披薩了。
So Imogen Heap, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, is now putting music on a blockchain ecosystem.
所以伊莫金·希普，一位榮獲格萊美獎的創作歌手，現在把音樂發表在一個區塊鏈的生態系統上。
She calls it "Mycelia." And the music has a smart contract surrounding it.
她稱其為“菌絲”。其中的音樂有著智能協議。
And the music protects her intellectual property rights. You want to listen to the song?
音樂保護著她的知識產權。你想要聽歌嗎？
It's free, or maybe a few micro-cents that flow into a digital account.
它是免費的，或者會有幾分錢流入數字賬戶。
You want to put the song in your movie, that's different, and the IP rights are all specified.
如果想要在電影中使用這首歌，那就是另一回事了。知識產權都有詳細說明。
You want to make a ringtone? That's different.
你想要作為手機鈴聲？那也是另一碼事。
She describes that the song becomes a business.
她描述道，歌曲成為了商業。
It's out there on this platform marketing itself, protecting the rights of the author,
在這個平臺上歌曲實現了商業化，保護了作者的權利。
and because the song has a payment system in the sense of bank account,
并且因為歌曲采用了一種類似于銀行賬戶的支付系統，
all the money flows back to the artist, and they control the industry, rather than these powerful intermediaries.
所有的錢都會到藝術家的手中，他們掌控了行業，而不是由那些強大的中間商所控制。
