OpenCulture I am sure I meant to publicise this earlier… The idea is a simple one:
“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.
It combines the efficiency of Internet-style free distribution with the certainty for the artist of some reward.”
Unfortunately, the project seems to be on hold at the moment and the library does not appear to have been built. Why not put something of yours forward?
