................................. To leave Commie, hyper to http://commie.oy.com/commie_leaving.html ................................. >From: Fred Baube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Death to Microsoft List !bcc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: DTM: OpenCulture.org > >via memepool. > >OK, someone is going to implement the protocol. > >http://www.openculture.org/ > >Art should be free. Artists should be paid. > >Welcome to OpenCulture.org > >OpenCulture is a new way to make books and music freely available >online, while making sure that artists get fairly compensated. >Using the Internet to let sponsors pool their resources, we >purchase the right to enjoy and redistribute works of art on >behalf of the public. > >With your help, we will build a world-class Digital Free Library >of books and music which can be freely downloaded and shared by >anyone, anywhere. With your help, we will buy the rights to make >the best new music and writing available to everyone, everywhere. > >With OpenCulture: > > Artists win because they get paid up front, before their work > is released to the Internet. > Fans win because they can help make works by their favorite > writers or musicians freely available to everyone. > The public wins because more books and music are freely avail- > able online. > >http://www.openculture.org/About/brief_process.html > >How the OpenCulture system works > >In a nutshell, we're helping an artist's fans to join together to >buy the right to use and redistribute that artist's work for the >general public. By contributing to a work's release, either as a >sponsor or as the artist, you're helping to make sure that everyone, >everywhere will be able to share and enjoy that work. > >Here's how it works: > > An artist lists her work-in-progress with us, along with how > much money he or she needs to make the work freely available. > We set up a donation fund for the work and invite the public to > make donations into it. > When there's enough money in the fund, the artist uploads the work > to us. > Once we verify that the work has been uploaded, we mail the artist > a check. > Right away, we make the work available to everyone who donated money > toward the work's release. > A few weeks later, we make the work available to the general public > as part of the OpenCulture Digital Free Library. -- ---> jab | commie listen at http://166.90.148.110:6136, set up at http://commie.oy.com/radio.html
