Instead of further promoting “free culture” I called for sustainable models for independent content producers. Code words here would be micropayments inside peer-to-peer networks, cultural flat rate, citizen-to-citizen loans and gifts, and more commercial concepts such as crowdfunding and the ‘freemium’ model in which payment finally becomes a possibility with the free and open no longer the only option.
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/geert/2009/04/24/the-future-after-intellectual-property-a-report-from-brussels/