Hafhp is looking to create a website that would enable the artist to build a license. The license would allow the artists to give up the commercial rights for the use of their content to a charity of choice. The license would be non-exclusive, user of content would pay the charity directly.
How would content be found ? The charity and the type of material the artist would provide would be coded into text. The artist would copy this text to their site. A search engine could source content. Charities could market the available content. The artist could display hungry artists and/or charity logo on site.
Develop a template that could be used by the many organizations.
*Self published artists want to contribute and have their art exposed.
*Organizations can be educated to use this content.
*The public are interested in finding out about "self published' artists.
Lawrence Lessig has posted a review of David Halperin's recent book, Digital Barbarism.
Halperin, who authored the (in)famous New York Times article calling for perpetual copyright, has now compiled his ideas into a book. Lessig offers a much-needed critique, including citing misconceptions about Creative Commons (Halperin conflates it not only with "freeware" with software... more
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