A New Revenue Stream for the Creative Community is Unfolding!

[max davis]

Does anyone want to discuss the impact datarevenue.org's initiatives will have on multimedia industries?
The Association's purpose is to establish accountability for multimedia publishers within the mobile space. Upon establishment, the Association will then monitor, collect and distribute data revenue on behalf of its members.

[Mitch Krayton]

What this world doesn't need is another traffic cop. The net is not about gatekeepers or toll booths. Everytime someone tries to dominate the space, any path opens up. The web is self-healing.

I don't think this will work for revenue either until a viable micro-payment system is in place that is independent, auditable and accountable. Most music artists get 1/4 of a cent per song per CD sold. Who gets the rest? and what exactly is the protection that are providing the creator?

Many suggest this, give away the content, music, lectures etc, and sell tangible stuff to make your money. The stuff that can be cloned will be cloned. You cannot stop it. (When you can figure out how to stop spam, this will prove me wrong.) The tangible stuff, including personal relationships can't be cloned so readily.

[max davis]

Interesting point of view.....however, you are missing the most important issue which is monetizing p2p within the mobile space. Sharing is the will of the people now, no one is proposing to stop the sharing. Our perspective offers the creators of the shared content a way to be paid for their efforts. These days most artists are self publishing so it would benefit today's artists as well as publishers and songwriters. Also it will offer a new ay for images to be monetized. p2p multimedia transactions are inevitable as data infrastructures build out. If a user likes content enough to pay to share it then they will. If they don't, then they won't. This is a fair way to do business. p2p on the Internet should have been handled like this in the beginning before the perception of "traffic cop" became insidious. Let' not let the same thing happen to data.