- From: heather vescent <heathervescent@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 15:24:59 -0700
- To: melvincarvalho@gmail.com
- Cc: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, "W3C Credentials CG (Public List)" <public-credentials@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CA+C6qMxtOq=1X3GoAWkf2s0i-Q=ZevpP8fRbsr8+TXK7J4YVRQ@mail.gmail.com>
While I applaud this concept, it is extremely problematic, specifically in putting all the risk onto the content creator. Maybe that is not too much of a risk for a developer building code, but it is significantly different for a film producer. On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 3:19 PM Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 at 23:22, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> > wrote: > >> Following up with an idea on "how can we fund things in this ecosystem". >> The concept of bounties came up. >> >> Here's a simple concept: >> >> Release software, documentation, and specifications under a "Bounty >> License". >> >> The license states that the content is free for non-commercial use and >> sets a bounty price to transition the license into a FOSS license. >> >> For example, libvc is a Verifiable Credentials library in C++. It is >> under a bounty license of $50K, if the bounty is paid, it moves to BSD >> 3-clause license. I can imagine three companies joining in and paying >> that bounty because it reduces implementation risk for them, and they >> get the software at a fraction of the cost of developing and maintaining >> it themselves. The upside is that the developer is paid for their effort >> vs. what happens today (leeching). >> >> This is easiest for software... harder for things like documentation, >> videos, etc. Information that once it's out, it's out, is more >> difficult. So, for those items, previews are released and the full >> version is only released once the bounty is paid. >> >> Bounty prices would have to be above market rates... because the content >> creator took on considerable risk in creating the content. >> >> -- manu >> >> PS: I know there are some things that may be better paid for up front, >> and we can still do that in parallel to the suggestion above. >> > > love it! > > >> >> -- >> Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny) >> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. >> blog: Veres One Decentralized Identifier Blockchain Launches >> https://tinyurl.com/veres-one-launches >> >> -- Heather Vescent <http://www.heathervescent.com/> President, The Purple Tornado, Inc Author, A Comprehensive Guide to Self Sovereign Identity <https://ssiscoop.com/> Author, The Cyber Attack Survival Manual <http://amzn.to/2i2Jz5K> @heathervescent <https://twitter.com/heathervescent> | Film Futures <https://vimeo.com/heathervescent> | Medium <https://medium.com/@heathervescent/> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/heathervescent/> | Future of Security Updates <https://app.convertkit.com/landing_pages/325779/>
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