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: license.rocks/
Daud on X: / zulfacar
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Credits:
Produced by Unsigned Berlin
Edited by Yannick Solandt
Hosted by Sebastian Sheath
Thumbnail by Anton Heeckt
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