Alternative Media Cooperative

William Fisher, in the sixth chapter of his book Promises to Keep, proposes a government reward system as a copyright alternative.

URL = http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/tfisher/PTKChapter6.pdf

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"Terry Fisher who has been promoting and the related idea of an alternative media cooperative model. In Fisher's model, viewers (rather than the content creators) pay a media fee to view content and the collected revenues are redistributed to the creators in the cooperative." (http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/archives/2006/07/_lulutv_pushing_the_boundaries.html)

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Parts of Promises to Keep are available at http://www.tfisher.org/PTK.htm

See the related strategy of Lulu TV