Vancouver's Terry McBride runs Nettwerk Music Group, home of such artists as Sarah McLachlan and Barenaked Ladies, and he's long been thinking out of the box when it comes to music and copyright in the digital age.
He has blogged in recent days on the emerging value of meta data in music and how value will be brought to music and monetized through the behaviour of fans. While it's a little off the beaten path for the news business, there is an analogy in there.