This story appears in Rolling Stone‘s 2021 Future of Music issue, a special project delving into the next era of the multibillion-dollar hitmaking business. Read the other stories here.
Entertainment lawyer Henderson Cole had spent years studying music’s tangled payment system, frustrated by how ill-adapted it was for the streaming era. In 2017, he had a lightbulb moment — when his girlfriend took out an album from the New York Public Library and downloaded it. (It was Swear I’m Good At This, by the indie-pop band Diet Cig.)
“I said to myself,...
Entertainment lawyer Henderson Cole had spent years studying music’s tangled payment system, frustrated by how ill-adapted it was for the streaming era. In 2017, he had a lightbulb moment — when his girlfriend took out an album from the New York Public Library and downloaded it. (It was Swear I’m Good At This, by the indie-pop band Diet Cig.)
“I said to myself,...
- 6/15/2021
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
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