A music NFT is when the artist mints a song's audio (and sometimes artwork) or video to the blockchain. These NFTs represent the authoritative ownership of the song or video on chain. Ownership typically does not extend to sound recording licensing rights (e.g. the right to license to services and collect royalties) though companies like Royal and Republic are tackling fractional ownership in sound recordings but that's for another post.

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