Creators' Freedom Project
Empowering Creators to Take Control of Their Own Business by Leveraging their Core Skillset — Creativity
A project to understand the needs of creators, highlight and experiment with replicate-able models that help independent artists make a living from their creativity. We'll explore the use of a number of online and tech tools and offerings of scarce goods & unique experiences to discover fans and the merchandise / performances that they want.
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The DIY Copyright Revolution
How 3-D printing will change the way we think about intellectual property. (via 3-D printing, copyright, and intellectual property. - Slate Magazine)
This is a very important realization for creators to understand — that when you can manipulate bits into atoms (and vice versa repeatedly) very inexpensively — that changes your creative world…potentially short-term negatively, but on the whole, very positively.
These 3D printing / scanning tools will disrupt traditional business models and industries in the way that digital files and the global Internet did for many creators. Frankly, the “law” doesn’t matter and is a red-herring. The technology exists and new industries are already being developed to take advantage of it.
Creators (and really the rest of us) need to quickly figure out what we love to do and how to make a living from it — like developing the unique limited good or experience that a dedicated group of people find valuable and for which are willing to compensate you. In a way, today’s creators have a head start on dealing with this life-shift than the rest of us, and when they figure it out, can help us all move forward.
Wow, that wasn’t too amorphous, was it?!
What do you think about 3D printing technology?
Nice work Mike Weinberg
Service and mobile app Booktrack lets readers add a soundtrack to the ebook their reading. The first time I’d heard of a book soundtrack was Gavin Mikhail’s soundtrack to “Between Shades of Gray” which I thought was very innovative. While books and music and movie soundtracks have been around for quite some time, I think the mobile ebook environment could give artists new opportunities to brand and associate their creativity with authors. Seems like a win-win-win for the artist, the author, and the reader / listener.
Three interesting spins on digital books: helpful & collaborative for readers, more possible creative expression for authors.
Take Me To a Future Where Books Act Like This
If the video shows the future, we’re not far off from it today. Some of these features already exist or could be expanded upon in current ebook readers. Most already let you look up a word and learn more about the topic using an internet search engine. Mobile apps like Flipboard aggregate your friend’s content so you can share and see their interests. The last example, “Alice,” buries interactive “easter-egg” chapters into a novel. Not only can it be more entertaining for the reader, but it allows authors more flexibility in the creative ways they can tell the story. It potentially also gives the author a way to find their super fans.
