>A better economic model (a better business plan for your activity) is :
>make money by selling your expertise, your ability to develop new
>content, and *give out* free content as a demonstration of what you can
>do. It's advertising !
This appears to discount itself. How can I sell my expertise if nothing I produce is
protected? Expertise eventually results in a product or a service, both of which require
compensation to create an economic model. I could develop new content as an employee, but then
it was never mine in the first place. I could develop new content as a contractor, but why
would they pay me if I can't claim it as mine first. Copyright has nothing to do with the
media. If I develop new content software and send it to a company on diskette what keeps the
company from just using it without paying me? Copyright. Same applies to the Net. It is the
copyright which protects my new content. No one will be me for my ability to develop new
content. They want the new content I develop. And whether I do it myself or hire my ability to
a company, someone must eventually sell the new content developed to create cash flow. And
what protects that end "owner" who is selling the content? Copyright.
Certainly, put out some free demo content. But I want someone to pay me for the rest of the
content I create. And to do that, it's got to be mine first.
Peace, William
When people run around and around in circles, we say they are crazy.
When planets do it, we say they are orbiting.
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