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Welcome to The Digital Art Auction!This site is to become an online auction facility for the commissioning and sale of digital art. The Digital Art Auction:
This is not a charity! It is an online auction tailor-made for the process of artists selling digital art to massive audiences. Each member of the audience pays the same price for the art. It is not a donation, but a purchase. The artist can at any time accept or decline the total audience revenue available to them.
Why?The power of copyright is on the wane... The Internet is not about controlling who has what, it's about everyone giving everything and anything to everyone else. It is all about copying and sharing, and nothing about exclusivity. Unfortunately, the idea of free sharing is incompatible with the widespread use of copyright based revenue models, and so you can imagine the dismay of artists and their publishers who've now seen the tide coming in to threaten the sand castles they've relied on for so long. Adding sand to the ramparts will be a short-lived solution, and draining the ocean is unthinkable. Get off the beach! Nevertheless, artists must still eat. The Digital Art Auction is the marketplace that lets artists exhibit their wares, and for their audience to express their valuation in monetary terms. It is a marketplace that can operate without copyright. Money for art. Art for money. An exchange is now possible. Here is the nexus where artist and audience meet. Audiences of a million. Artists worth a million. Once the deal is done there is no need for copyright. The artist has their money. The audience has their art. Read the essay that started it all off here: Essay
How?Eventually you'll pick the kind of digital art auction that you're interested in by selecting an art categories from a menu, e.g. 'Music'. You will then be able to browse the various works on offer, or carry out the necessary steps to offer work of your own. At some point it will be necessary for you to register. This enables you to submit valuations (or bids) and offer up art for auction. When the total value of the best price offered by an audience meets the artist's satisfaction, the auction can be completed at the artist's request. The art is supplied, and the best price is charged, to each member of the audience that offered that or a higher price. Thus it is possible for an artist to sell a piece of music to an audience of a 100,000, at a price of $1 and, if say 70% of the audience bid $1 or more, receive $70,000 in return (minus 1% commission). |
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