TED演讲:区块链对货币和商业的影响(11)

 Finally -- Finally, number five: there are a whole number of creators of content who don't receive fair compensation, 最后--最后，第五点：有许多内容的创造者并没有得到公平的报酬，

because the system for intellectual property is broken. 因为知识产权系统遭到了损害。

It was broken by the first era of the internet. Take music. 在互联网的第一个时代就遭到损害。就拿音乐来说。

Musicians are left with crumbs¹ at the end of the whole food chain. 音乐家们只在食物链的末端获得一些残渣碎屑。

You know, if you were a songwriter, 25 years ago, you wrote a hit song, 在25年前，如果你是一个作曲家，写出一首流行的歌曲，

it got a million singles, you could get royalties² of around 45,000 dollars. 卖出一百万首单曲，你可以获得大约45000美元的报酬。

Today, you're a songwriter, you write a hit song, it gets a million streams,  而现在，作曲家的你写出一首流行的歌曲，被百万次播放，

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，足以买一个不错的披萨了。

So Imogen Heap, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, is now putting music on a blockchain ecosystem³. 所以伊莫金·希普，一位荣获格莱美奖的创作歌手，现在把音乐发表在一个区块链的生态系统上。

She calls it "Mycelia." And the music has a smart contract surrounding it. 她称其为“菌丝”。其中的音乐有着智能协议。

And the music protects her intellectual property rights. You want to listen to the song? 音乐保护着她的知识产权。你想要听歌吗？

It's free, or maybe a few micro-cents that flow into a digital account. 它是免费的，或者会有几分钱流入数字账户。

You want to put the song in your movie, that's different, and the IP rights are all specified⁴. 如果想要在电影中使用这首歌，那就是另一回事了。知识产权都有详细说明。

You want to make a ringtone? That's different. 你想要作为手机铃声？那也是另一码事。

She describes that the song becomes a business. 她描述道，歌曲成为了商业。

It's out there on this platform marketing⁵ itself, protecting the rights of the author,  在这个平台上歌曲实现了商业化，保护了作者的权利。

and because the song has a payment system in the sense of bank account,  并且因为歌曲采用了一种类似于银行账户的支付系统，

all the money flows back to the artist, and they control the industry, rather than these powerful intermediaries. 所有的钱都会到艺术家的手中，他们掌控了行业，而不是由那些强大的中间商所控制。

1 crumbs   

int. (表示惊讶)哎呀 n. 碎屑 名词crumb的复数形式

参考例句：

• She stood up and brushed the crumbs from her sweater. 她站起身掸掉了毛衣上的面包屑。
• Oh crumbs! Is that the time? 啊，天哪！都这会儿啦？

2 royalties   

特许权使用费

参考例句：

• I lived on about £3,000 a year from the royalties on my book. 我靠着写书得来的每年约3，000英镑的版税生活。 来自辞典例句
• Payments shall generally be made in the form of royalties. 一般应采取提成方式支付。 来自经济法规部分

3 ecosystem   

n.生态系统

参考例句：

• This destroyed the ecosystem of the island.这样破坏了岛上的生态系统。
• We all have an interest in maintaining the integrity of the ecosystem.维持生态系统的完整是我们共同的利益。

4 specified   

adj.特定的

参考例句：

• The architect specified oak for the wood trim. 那位建筑师指定用橡木做木饰条。
• It is generated by some specified means. 这是由某些未加说明的方法产生的。

5 marketing   

n.行销，在市场的买卖，买东西

参考例句：

• They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
• He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。