@ryangtanaka
The big issue here is provenance. Historically speaking, the reason why DRM (digital rights management) initiatives often fail is because they get bottlenecked by startups trying to "own" the records to the rights - incumbents don't want competition (they're charging $50 per registration these days), new projects don't have the community's trust, and having all those agreements sitting in one server by one company made them too vulnerable to stand on their own. So what happens is that a new startup attempts to "solve" this problem, runs for about a few years, then shuts down eventually as they're not able to keep it going for the long-term. All those records - now just gone.
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