Copyright as a legal concept is fairly old and the perception on it changed a lot within the history. For instance SACEM [0] was established 170 years ago in Fr

Copyright as a legal concept is fairly old and the perception on it changed a lot within the history. For instance SACEM [0] was established 170 years ago in France. The general idea was to allow creators and rights holders to control their distribution but recent changes, in US MMA [1] and in EU the Copyright Directive [2] are now moving from focusing on distribution to getting creators paid. If we look far enough in the future, copyright will mean something very different that what it means today. But I'm biased, considering that I built company in this space. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Société_des_auteurs,_compositeurs_et_éditeurs_de_musique https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Société_des_auteurs,_composite... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Modernization_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Modernization_Act [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_Copyright_in_the_Digital_Single_Market https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_Copyright_in_the_...