Blockchain Could Help Artists Profit More from Their Creative Works (hbr.org)
Movie studios and record companies should take note.

Anyone who follows the cultural industries — art, music, publishing, theater, cinema — knows of the tussles between artists and those who feed off of their talents.

The traditional food chain in movie-making, for example, is a long one: Between those who create a film and those who pay for it — movie goers, cable subscribers, pay-per-viewers, advertisers, rights licensees, and institutional sponsors such as the National Endowment for the Arts — is a multitude of middlemen...
https://hbr.org/2017/03/blockchain-could-help-artists-profit-more-from-their-creative-works