Hi There- been reading the forum, and listening to podcasts. Also just read the Google Doc that Adam posted. I'm motivated enough to get a counterparty wallet (my very first experience with 'using' btc) and get my 5 posts to participate in the experiment. I also have a passion for doing good online and will be looking to contribute my experience in web design / development if the opportunity arises. (see my personal website for more about me and my work.)
I have some thoughts about publishing I'd like to share with the community.
I love the idea of commonly: to publish content on-demand for donation until a quota is reached and the content is released into the public domain. "Publicly funded into the public domain." I love the idea of LTB ecosystem: to publish content for network-currency, growing with the network.
Does anyone else see a network where digital art and words are ransomed into existence, then given to the world for all eternity? Does it make sense to give a film away after it's costs and your labor has been paid for, essentially removing the profiteering model?
For example, if vimeo on-demand had a goal for each doco and when reached it could expand it's reach on youtube, be downloaded and shared on torent? The creator publishes his creation on-network, it get's funded into freedom when his labor costs are met. (Again, assuming a creator that simply desires to sustain his creation process - not collect a library of products for sale for life.) Like crowdfunding on-demand for content to get into the public domain.
The critical stage is the network where the work is originally published. And I see a local component to this. We're seeing much more localized funding with kickstarter, but when's the last time you tipped your friend down the road for his/her blog post about astrology? Or micro-donated to watch a short news story your friend did about bike lanes? That's where LTB network idea comes in.
I believe we are all artists/creators. But we are not all profiteers (and we need to find a way to distinguish ourselves from commercial profiteering). And some of us may want our e-book in the public library, so the licensing is a big deal. (Another good idea I was able to find around this space dealing with book publishing is unglue.it - where books are funded into the public domain.) Of course, everyone needs to get paid for their work. Real labor wages assigned by the artist themselves. A job for anyone.
It seems the LTB Network is presenting a similar solution to this problem -- creators supported by a network of peers. Also, Patreon lets you get paid for new content, but doesn't offer the network-currency idea and doesn't yet offer bitcoin micro-payments. The thing I'm wondering about is could the LTB ecosystem be altered slightly to offer ransoming content instead of going straight to free? And does that make sense to you?
What we can focus on once a creation has been funded into freedom is the interface. Imagine public spaces with publicly funded works in the public domain displayed like interactive galleries. Like flickr commons, but for everything. If just a few big artists get on board I'm thinking about music videos being created by independent artists who can choose to give back to the music artist or not. One just has to accept that their work really is in the public domain and others are simply going to mash it up and maybe profit from it even though it was only a humble ransom paid for the initial work. And the interface for the commons is not going to be flickr in the future. Interfaces are going to be everywhere. The more creative the interface the more exciting attention it will grab.
The LTB Network seems to be focusing on the content creation process and on the interface/network as the value engine. I'd like to apply this to all types of digital content and nail down a model that keeps content sacred until it's creator's needs have been met and he/she can say with joy 'here's a gift from me to the world' and yet not be poor or alone. The answer seems to be in here someplace. For now, I'm tagging it SustainCreate.
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