ThoughtStorms Wiki :: GettingPaidForContent

A very OutOfDatePage of course.

Some recent links

SessionStudio : trying to solve the bureaucratic problems of connecting musicians to works they've participated in. Sees "getting paid" as effectively a data-base problem.
ArmTheCreators talks about how creative individuals can finance themselves : https://www.armthecreators.com/how-to-invest-in-creators/
TimBray on Subscription Overload : https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/09/25/Subscription-Overload
How Quartz is evolving : https://simonowens.substack.com/p/can-quartz-become-a-scrappy-media
MiddleClassMusician

Old stuff

Having tackled some big themes, the next couple of selections discuss smaller scale issues. The end of the discussion on the "Attention Economy" argued that the current collapse in content companies giving their information away for nothing was not a demonstration that the theory of the attention economy is wrong. In fact it is compatible with the new pressures that such an economy will bring. But suppose we are content creators and we want to be paid? What are our chances?

TheNextEconomyOfIdeas

An interesting quote: "I believe that, in the practical absence of law, ethics are going to make a major comeback on the Net. In an environment of dense connection, where much of what we do and say is recorded, preserved, and easily discovered, ethical behavior becomes less a matter of self-imposed virtue and more a matter of horizontal social pressure." – ZbigniewLukasiak

ContentIsNotKing

MicropaymentsForAndAgainst

Free doesn't just mean giving away and pray: http://techdirt.com/articles/20080522/1545021204.shtml

GettingPaidForContent

Old stuff

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