‘The music industry needs more innovators and fewer lawyers’ 

Recorded music was largely an analog phenomenon until the ’90s and the digital era. The institutions that sprung up around the music – to record, distribute and monetize, even to secure copyrights and administer royalties – were all created as analog institutions, not forced to compete, or even exist, in a digital world until very recently.

Source: ‘The music industry needs more innovators and fewer lawyers’ – Music Business Worldwide