GnukeBox/design/revenue

Sources

Revenue will come from the following sources:

• download sales
• license sales
• merchandise sales
• voluntary contributions
• paid advertisements
• paid memberships

We're going to make the assumption that most artists will still be thinking in more traditional terms and therefore will not want to release their music under a Creative Commons (or other free-copying) license, at least initially.

The default model, then, is:

• fans can listen to music on GnukeBox for free, perhaps with some level of limitation
  • maybe only some tracks are available
  • maybe there are a limited number of plays
• fans purchase tracks or albums they like
• once purchased, music is downloadable in a range of freely-copyable formats (lossy and lossless)

Notes

It would be nice if we had a better way of handling music with Creative Commons licenses... artists who CC-license their music should get extra benefits.