Business Chief Europe Magazine April 2018 | Page 75

‘ Choon is based around a priority token called Notes , an ERC20 token based on the Ethereum network which lives under the surface of the app , which is how artists get paid ’

trying to disrupt the market you shouldn ’ t sell a big part of your business to the very people you ’ re trying to disrupt ,” says Emery , who believes the goal for Choon is to remove as many intermediaries as possible . “ Anybody that puts their music on Choon owns their own music , the recording and the publishing . Artists are not signed to copyright societies so they ’ re completely free to get paid directly . We just want to break this system where 95 % of all the money goes to the people in the middle and deliver that to the artist .”
Emery doesn ’ t want Choon to be a one-sided system where it ’ s just
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