Press & Media Kit
Press resources
Everything a journalist needs to cover Collective Media — the story, the facts, the assets, and a contact. For interviews or anything not here, email press@mywork.rocks.
Organization overview
Collective Media is a nonprofit crowdfunding platform that pays creators a fair, one-time fee for a specific work — and releases that finished work into the public domain, free for everyone, forever. Donors fund a personal wallet and direct contributions to projects they believe in: a novel, an album, a film, a work of scholarship.
When a project reaches its funding goal, the creator is paid in full and the completed work is dedicated to the public domain under CC0. If a project does not reach its goal by its deadline, every contribution returns automatically to the donor's wallet. Creators pay no platform fee; a 5% fee on wallet contributions covers operating costs.
The model departs from existing platforms in three ways: creators keep creative control and credit and pay nothing, donor contributions support a nonprofit, and the resulting work belongs to the public rather than to a platform or a label.
Founding story
Most of the culture we love was made by people who were never paid fairly for it. Collective Media exists to change one link in that chain: pay the artist in full, once, for the work — then give the work to everyone. No royalties to chase, no rights signed away to a gatekeeper, no paywall on the result. It is public-domain commissioning infrastructure for the things that markets won't fund but culture needs.
Key facts
- What it is: nonprofit crowdfunding for public-domain creative work
- Creator fee: 0%
- Operating model: 5% fee on donor wallet contributions
- License on funded work: CC0 (public domain), with permanent creator credit
- Funding structure: all-or-nothing; unfunded allocations return to the donor wallet
- Status: Washington nonprofit corporation; 501(c)(3) determination in progress
By the numbers
Live impact metrics (total raised, projects funded, creators paid, works released) publish on the Impact page and the annual report as real data accrues. Figures available on request for the current reporting period.