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An open source business plan you can download from sourceforge. It's a Catch-22. Universally trusted DRM and syndicated commerce can't work unless the business methods are open, and it is common wisdom that a business must keep its methods secret. Unless of course the business aims to build syndicable marketplaces with universally-trusted DRM riding on Open Source CMS. By surfing along with Moore's Law, Metcalfe's Law, and Constitutional Law, this can all be accomplished. Digital rights management (DRM) is the holy grail of the internet. It is a multi-billion-dollar, ever-expanding market, and an apt solution will be invaluable to the livelihood of all media companies. 22surf proposes that DRM will be solved with an Open Source philosophy such as that promoted by Authena. Security standards will only emerge if artist-hackers trust them. Over time, marketplaces that are best able to establish trust will prevail and snowball. The first mover in "trust" will have a lot to gain. The business model of centralized conglomerates marketing the digital rights of a handful of artists is outdated. Both the artists and end-consumers have been flustered. A new model, consisting of a distributed network of thousands of creators hosting their content on Open Source CMS and syndicating it to trusted archives and marketplaces, is emerging. In order to build a trusted network of marketplaces supporting common standards for syndicated commerce, the business plan should be shared openly. The transparency provided by Open Source will foster the adoption of open standards for DRM and syndicated commerce. 22surf encourages artist-hackers to download our business plan for building profitable archives and marketplaces with Open Source CMS, change and build on it, and join in the following revenue streams: 1) sell keyword advertising throughout free OSCMS hosting services (blogs, galleries, etc.), 2) sell advanced hosting options/extra disk space, 3) charge 5% on content marketplace transactions, 4) charge 5% on Open Source Arts freelance services marketplace transactions, 5) manage/host media assets of large businesses (record labels/movie studios/etc.), 6) sell printing services (or partner with businesses) for hard-copy books, prints, CDs, DVDs, etc. 7) create a syndicable friendster/FOAF (friend-of-a-friend) network Not long after I presented Authena at the Harvard OSCOM conference, I got to thinking the only way one could build a network of marketplaces supporting syndicated commerce would be to Open Source the business plan. Here's the vision: a writer signs up for a free blog at 22blog.com (powered by cafelog), or a band signs up for a free postnuke site taylored for bands at 22band.com (powered by postnuke or phpnuke), or a photographer signs up for a photo gallery or a vvgallery stock photography shop at 22photo.com (powered by gallery), or somebody new in town signs up for a friend-finding/dating FOAF site at 22friend.com. Whoever they are, they're immediately given a master account at 22surf, which allows them to activate a gallery, blog, or personals profile with a single click, and to syndicate their content and information to other networks such as 33surf, or 44surf, or any other network. And as 22surf will be Open Sourced, you'll be able to run your own network and allow your users to syndicate their content and information to other parallel networks, archives, and marketplaces. 22surf aims to leverage Open Source CMS to allow artists, writers and musicians to run their own stock photography shops, record labels, and publishing houses capable of syndicated commerce. As software has often been Open Sourced with great results for both developers and end-users, we thought we'd Open Source the 22surf business plan by releasing it under a Creative Commons license. This makes sense as our business plan does not consist of building a central marketplace, but rather a distributed network of marketplaces to which artists may syndicate their content. Only with thousands of independent marketplaces can trusted standards emerge.

Does Open Source DRM make sense?

http://authena.org/
http://22surf.org/

Should not creators be given a right to choose?

http://22surf.org/
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?grou p_id=113442&package_id=122947

22surf Summary:

22surfing is a sport. It's for individuals and businesses alike. It's about surfing along with natural laws like Moore's Law, Metcalfe's Law, and intellectual property law towards one's dreams as a creator, hacker, and entrepreneur. It's about riding technology's bleeding edge out to where artist-hackers, writers, movie directors, photographers, and musicians form their own media archives and markets, as Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS) surpass yesterday's proprietary solutions.

Digital rights management (DRM) is the holy grail of the internet. It is a multi-billion-dollar, ever-expanding market, and an apt solution will be invaluable to the livelihood of content creators, programmers, and media companies. The 22surf business plan for generating revenue with Open Source CMS and DRM has been Open Sourced in an effort to foster discussion and inspire fellow artist-hackers to build businesses. Rather than proposing another CMS, 22surf seeks the best route to syndicated commerce and DRM across existing CMS.

An Open Source solution to DRM will be important to artists, musicians, and creators, to the Open Source community, and to DRM. If only proprietary methods for DRM are developed, then corporations will be granted more power over creators, and too, it will be difficult to realize universal, robust standards, as hackers around the world won't be allowed under the hood to improve the system. Furthermore, an Open Source solution to DRM will provide countless business opportunities and jobs for Open Source programmers with record labels, stock photography archives, and movie studios, all of whom will save money.

An Open Source solution to DRM and syndicable media markets is a natural destination for the Open Source movement. DRM and syndication are based on methods and algorithms that must be transparent in order for DRM and syndication to be trusted, secure, and universally accepted.

The internet favors the direct connection of the creator and consumer. In the emerging webscape defined by the Open Source CMS renaissance, creators will be able to define the rights determining how their content is used, and consumers will be able to support their favorite artists and musicians without large corporations taking a cut.

Open Source is granting the creator the power to create their own media markets. Oscommerce is fully capable of handling pay-per-download models alongside physical media sales, bypassing the often greater than 50% cut into an artist's profits that older models centered about large, proprietary online markets claimed. Open Source CMS also allows the creator to maximize their own brand rather than building amazon.com's or barnesandnoble.com's. Future 22surf models are explored, including scenarios wherein open DRM protocols such as openipmp and Media-S are married to Open Source CMS such as xoops, postnuke, tiki, gallery, and oscommerce to provide content marketplaces connecting creators directly to consumers.

22surf encourages artist-hackers to download the 22surf business plan for building profitable archives and marketplaces with Open Source CMS, change and build on it, and join in the following revenue streams: 1) sell keyword advertising throughout free OSCMS hosting services (blogs, galleries, etc.), 2) sell advanced hosting options/extra disk space, 3) charge 5% on content marketplace transactions, 4) charge 5% on Open Source Arts freelance services marketplace transactions, 5) manage/host media assets of large businesses (record labels/movie studios/etc.) with openipmp or Media-S for DRM 6) sell printing services (or partner with businesses) for hard-copy books, prints, CDs, DVDs, etc. 7) create a syndicable friendster/FOAF (friend-of-a-friend) network.

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Open Source Business Plans should be Open Source :)

http://22surf.org/

22surf to Present at OSCOM4 (Open Source Content Management) in Zurich.

22surf: An Open Source Business Plan for Open Source CMS & DRM

OSCOM Track: Business/Legal

Title:
22surf.org: An Open Source Business Plan for Open Source CMS & DRM

Presenters:
Dr. Elliot McGucken: Founder of authena.org, 22surf.org, and jollyroger.com
Chris Mollis: Founder of objectlab.com and openipmp.org (Open Source DRM)

22surf Summary:

22surfing is a sport. It's for individuals and businesses alike. It's about surfing along with natural laws like Moore's Law, Metcalfe's Law, and intellectual property law towards one's dreams as a creator, hacker, and entrepreneur. It's about riding technology's bleeding edge out to where artist-hackers, writers, movie directors, photographers, and musicians form their own media archives and markets, as Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS) surpass yesterday's proprietary solutions.

Digital rights management (DRM) is the holy grail of the internet. It is a multi-billion-dollar, ever-expanding market, and an apt solution will be invaluable to the livelihood of content creators, programmers, and media companies. The 22surf business plan for generating revenue with Open Source CMS and DRM has been Open Sourced in an effort to foster discussion and inspire fellow artist-hackers to build businesses. Rather than proposing another CMS, 22surf seeks the best route to syndicated commerce and DRM across existing CMS.

An Open Source solution to DRM will be important to artists, musicians, and creators, to the Open Source community, and to DRM. If only proprietary methods for DRM are developed, then corporations will be granted more power over creators, and too, it will be difficult to realize universal, robust standards, as hackers around the world won't be allowed under the hood to improve the system. Furthermore, an Open Source solution to DRM will provide countless business opportunities and jobs for Open Source programmers with record labels, stock photography archives, and movie studios, all of whom will save money.

An Open Source solution to DRM and syndicable media markets is a natural destination for the Open Source movement. DRM and syndication are based on methods and algorithms that must be transparent in order for DRM and syndication to be trusted, secure, and universally accepted.

The internet favors the direct connection of the creator and consumer. In the emerging webscape defined by the Open Source CMS renaissance, creators will be able to define the rights determining how their content is used, and consumers will be able to support their favorite artists and musicians without large corporations taking a cut.

Open Source is granting the creator the power to create their own media markets. Oscommerce is fully capable of handling pay-per-download models alongside physical media sales, bypassing the often greater than 50% cut into an artist's profits that older models centered about large, proprietary online markets claimed. Open Source CMS also allows the creator to maximize their own brand rather than building amazon.com's or barnesandnoble.com's. Future 22surf models are explored, including scenarios wherein open DRM protocols such as openipmp and Media-S are married to Open Source CMS such as xoops, postnuke, tiki, gallery, and oscommerce to provide content marketplaces connecting creators directly to consumers.

22surf encourages artist-hackers to download the 22surf business plan for building profitable archives and marketplaces with Open Source CMS, change and build on it, and join in the following revenue streams: 1) sell keyword advertising throughout free OSCMS hosting services (blogs, galleries, etc.), 2) sell advanced hosting options/extra disk space, 3) charge 5% on content marketplace transactions, 4) charge 5% on Open Source Arts freelance services marketpla

Here's some more info on Authena & 22surf:

http://authena.org/

Authena software is based on a philosophy of creators' rights, and its three pillars are:

1. Full Artistic Control: Open Source CMS allows Artist-Hackers to get under the hood to change themes, graphics, UI, sound quality, modules, etc.

2. Distribution: Open Source CMS coupled with RDF/RSS fosters efficient searches and syndication on the semantic web, and thus effective distribution.

3. DRM: Open Source CMS coupled with an extensible rights language such as the CC licenses expressed in RDF/RSS allows a full spectrum of rights definitions in parallel with distribution. Open security standards and protocols afford financial transactions, secure delivery, and trusted ratings for marketplaces and content.

There are great divides in the contemporary media industry. Many companies and individuals are finding themselves on the wrong side of the laws--Moore's Law, Metcalfe's Law, and Constitutional Law. Authena is devoted to keeping artists and entreprenuers on the right side of the laws. The Open Source Content Management System (CMS) renaissance is under way, and with a few clicks of the mouse or a bit of PHP, you can begin leveraging its vast power to host your band's site, to share or sell your photography, to display your art, to organize and stream your music, to set up a record label or publishing house, and to have fun pursuing your artistic dreams. Simply put, Open Source has moved beyond the operating system, and is now bringing its classic robustness and freedom to content management systems--many are listed in the right hand column.

Welcome to AuthenaTM: An Open Forum for Open Source CMS & DRM

Authena @ Harvard Law School & OSCOM.ORG Dr. Elliot McGucken

AuthenaTM software is based on a philosophy of creators' rights, and its three pillars are:

1. Full Artistic Control: Open Source CMS allows Artist-Hackers to get under the hood to change themes, graphics, UI, sound quality, modules, etc.

2. Distribution: Open Source CMS coupled with RDF/RSS fosters efficient searches and syndication on the semantic web, and thus effective distribution.

3. DRM: Open Source CMS coupled with an extensible rights language such as the CC licenses expressed in RDF/RSS allows a full spectrum of rights definitions in parallel with distribution. Open security standards and protocols afford financial transactions, secure delivery, and trusted ratings for marketplaces and content.

There are great divides in the contemporary media industry. Many companies and individuals are finding themselves on the wrong side of the laws--Moore's Law, Metcalfe's Law, and Constitutional Law. Authena is devoted to keeping artists and entreprenuers on the right side of the laws. The Open Source Content Management System (CMS) renaissance is under way, and with a few clicks of the mouse or a bit of PHP, you can begin leveraging its vast power to host your band's site, to share or sell your photography, to display your art, to organize and stream your music, to set up a record label or publishing house, and to have fun pursuing your artistic dreams. Simply put, Open Source has moved beyond the operating system, and is now bringing its classic robustness and freedom to content management systems--many are listed in the right hand column.

Gone are the days when we logged on to merely set up a web page or share our poetry. Today, with Open Source CMS, one can become a record label, publisher, distribution center, and media conglomerate. The software is still a bit "hackeresque," but Authena is aiming to help streamline it, highlight the coolest applications, and bundle them with open standards for digital rights management (DRM). Check back here early and often for the latest in how you can manage your creations online.

http://22surf.org/

It's a Catch-22. Universally trusted DRM and syndicated commerce can't work unle

I know the guys at http://authena.org/ and http://22surf.org/ are working on solutions for DRM & online delivery. I think they're blending both proprietary and open source protocols. DRMTORRENT coul be cool. :)

I forgot to add: these philosophies empower artists with a blend of Opne Source CMS & DRM: http://22surf.org/ & http://authena.org/