Certainly everyone in the music industry is interested in blockchain and in any technology that allows greater control and greater ability for rights holders to authorize or prohibit to license to monetize their work. We at the Private Copying Collective represent something that needs to come in to clean up what can't be authorized and licensed. While there remains any quantity of uncontrollable activity, through any technology, artists should still remunerated, hence the creation internationally of the private copying regimes. But, absolutely, our member collectives are actively investigating blockchain and how that and other technologies can further their ability to license directly.
On May 29th, 2018. See this statement in context.