It's so funny how people construct narratives. I'm listening to Bloomberg Business on the radio and they're talking about how David Bowie was a pioneer in monetizing future copyright cashflows to finance music production.
If you believed that copyright was going to go away in ten years, surely selling off future copyright cashflows is exactly what you would want to do.
Brilliant. Cash out now before the music became a stranded asset.
Was a pioneer in that when? The two angles aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. Theoretically he could be good at milking copyright while it lasted even if he didn't believe it would be around forever.