For Rights Holders
What if you could play a key role
in the 21st century renaissance?
A new funding model for creative works. Get paid a one-time lump sum.
Transfer the rights. Watch your work become free for the world — forever.
Every funding avenue has a catch.
Creators have always had to choose between control, money, and reach. Until now.
Parent Company
Netflix, Amazon, MGM
✓ Capital upfront
✗ Surrender rights to your work and all future related works. Revenue is their call, not yours.
Patreon / Kickstarter
Direct fan support
✓ You keep rights
✗ Revenue scales only with the size and wealth of your existing fanbase. Platform fees compound. No tax benefit for backers.
Grants
NIH, arts foundations
✓ Keep rights, no fees
✗ Opaque application process. Funds go to a system — you don't control the outcome. Works created may not be open to all.
Commission
Direct patronage
✓ Patron controls outcome
✗ Not tax-deductible. No structure for commissioning grand works by the public for the benefit of all. Fully bespoke — doesn't scale.
No financial structure has ever been put in place for the public to commission grand works
by artists for the betterment of all. Famous classical symphonies were written as birthday
presents for children. Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (1971) exists because an
11-year-old girl demanded it at dinner. The infrastructure for that kind of patronage at scale
has never existed — until now.
The Hard Truth
Modern distributors are not distributors.
They are gatekeepers.
Give a pirate a piece of content and they'll view it six ways from Sunday free of charge.
The internet changed distribution forever — yet the old guard pretends otherwise.
40%+
AMC gives over 40% of admission fees to "operating costs and other expenses" — including licensing fees. At $20 a ticket, you see ~$10–12 reach the rights holder.
70+ yrs
Copyright lasts 70 years after the creator's death. That's how long a streaming platform
can fight over rights while your work sits behind a paywall.
"There's a recognition that we need to have a period of exclusivity." — Michael O'Leary,
top theater lobbyist, admitting that artificial scarcity is the model.
Companies like Netflix, Amazon, and Paramount bring no additional value to the works they distribute
and do not build local communities. They fight with our money over rights because they want a moat
around their customers. They are leeches, not distributors.
Collective Media offers a way out.
People give to what they use.
The proof is in the financial statements.
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Wikipedia
$160M/yr
Free to all users. Net worth $271M. Their primary fundraiser:
a banner at the top of the page. That's it. A portion of users
donate — that's more than enough to keep the lights on for everyone.
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PBS
$221K/yr
Founded in 1969 to maximize access to content. In 2025 they received
just $221,505 in donations — then lost all government subsidies.
How often do you use PBS? How often did you donate?
This is the gap we exist to close.
It only takes a portion of users to donate, leaving more than enough to keep the lights on
for everyone. That is a core value of Collective Media. A small fraction of the people
who benefit from a work can fund its creation entirely.
The New Avenue
Here is how Collective Media works.
Simple. Transparent. Fair to creators. Beneficial to everyone.
1
You list your work
Rights holders — most often the creator — list their creative work with a funding goal and a deadline. This is a one-time lump-sum payment, not royalties.
2
The community funds it
Consumers and companies make tax-deductible charitable contributions. Funds go into a donor-controlled wallet. They allocate to projects they believe in.
3
Goal met → rights transfer
Once the funding goal is reached, the rights over the creative work are transferred to Collective Media, where they are immediately placed into the public domain.
4
You get paid
You receive the full funding goal amount. No deductions. No royalty holdbacks. A clean, one-time transaction.
5
The work is free — forever
The final assets are published for distribution on our site and accessible through a variety of free means. P2P, Usenet, and direct download. No paywalls. No license fees. Ever.
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If it doesn't fund, nothing happens
If a project doesn't reach its goal before the deadline, all allocated funds are returned to donors' wallets. You keep your rights. No risk to creator or donor.
Two example projects.
This platform is for every rights holder — from bedroom artists to world-renowned studios.
Example 1 — Fresh Project
Jazzy Joe's Jazzy Jams
by Jazzy Joe · ~1,000 fans
A five-song EP of original jams perfect for streaming, sleeping, or your sensual experience.
A small-time artist with a consistent fanbase — exactly who this platform was built for.
Deliverables
✓ Final mix of a five-song EP
✓ Source files used for making the mix
✓ Associated cover art and sheet music
The Math
$10 from 2,000 donors. $5 from 4,000. $1 from 20,000.
Just $55 a day over a year — every dollar tax-deductible
in a way never before available to Jazzy Joe's audience.
Example 2 — Existing Work
That Movie From Your Childhood
by Big Name Studios · S&P 500 company
It didn't sell very well. The studio is selling it to the highest bidder anyway — and is
willing to make a special agreement with Collective Media. This could be the place where
a creative work comes to rest.
Deliverables
✓ Everything associated with a normal transfer of sale to a 3rd party
The Math
330 million Americans. It takes just 3% to give $1 one time —
tax-deductible — and the goal is met. Once done, this film plays in any format,
anywhere in the world, with zero licensing fees. Forever.
How we distribute released works.
Once a work enters the public domain, we make it accessible through multiple free channels.
No licensing fees. No gatekeepers. No expiry.
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P2P Downloads
WebTorrent Free from legal issues for public domain works. Available in-browser — no client required. Download speed scales with the work's popularity.
✓ Minimal cost to us
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Usenet
NZB Free from legal issues. Download traffic handled by Usenet providers. High level of community support and archive redundancy.
✓ Minimal cost to us
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Direct Download
Ad-supported option Instant. Easy. Fully supported in every browser. Ad-supported option available for those who prefer straightforward HTTP access.
✓ Possible revenue source
This could be where your work
is born — or where it comes to rest.
Whether you're an indie artist with 1,000 fans or a studio with a catalog collecting dust —
there is a place for your work here. List it. Fund it. Free it.