Hey Mateys, I have project at my university regarding business proposals, and I have an idea of Free knowledge at your hand that is free books and scientific research papers at no cost. Now, how to tackle the copyright issue and propose my idea?
I kindly request your assistance. New proposals, improvements, and suggestions are welcome.
Business proposal: destroy capitalism
News break: capitalism is on its way out. Now we have tech feudalism (enshittification as a business model). Rejoice!
That’s not a separate thing, it’s just capitalism in crisis because of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall
I can see why you would think that. I think this video explains it well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDPPig9JR5Y.
TL;DW: Capitalism in it’s true form was “I give you this, you give me that”. Exchange of goods. And from that perspective, it has worked. But now that nobody sells stuff anymore but holds you or the goods you want hostage, it has devolved back to the old system of feudalism where you live somewhere and the king asks for your work and money so you can live there.
I’m not saying thats the only way to look at it but I find the explanation pretty good. It would explain why so many people who are actually very good at trading things struggle in this climate now while others now thrive who have no clue how to produce viable products.
I graduated in business management and my dissertation was on business ethics and how corporations never fuckin use it in the US but somehow the subject is studied academically for business students.
True and the only good examples of business ethics are ones outside the US
Do you have lots of cash to support the copyright and maintenance fees? The Web archive (I think, or another similar website) got sued for having knowledge and book contents on their website. You can’t just publish hacked books.
Most likely you would need a way to generate money for a “business”.
There would be some ways like advertising (can be OK, but not always the best, it depends on how many adds, how scummy ads, and how much tracking/data selling).
Donations? = pretty much no expected revenue. The amount of revenue you can get is very low.
Paid features, but what features could be paid while keeping free access?
Now, how to tackle the copyright issue and propose my idea?
Not sure this is the right place to ask, not dealing with copyright issues is kind of our thing here.
Not dealing with **the effects of **copyright is the thing here.
And in that sense he can gain some insights ;)
If I had to implement this business model, I would go to a country that don’t give a f* about dcma & stuff, and implement it in a similar way as Mega did.
With just the adjunction that if you upload a new book, you get free subscription for one week/month/year (depending if you share a small article, or the whole Encyclopedia Universalis)
Literally the best you could do is pound a few Red Bulls take your most expensive text books to your nearest library during the later hours and use their book scanner to make some PDFs.
- Copyright is a HUGE pain in the arse, especially with books. Do you realise how hard some libraries have had to fight, just for trying to do, your business idea. On that note.
- What’s your USP, especially compared to a library? They already have tons of physical and digital books, and other media. You can even request scientific papers, from some of them. Remember digital libraries are also a thing.
- A lot of scientific papers are already available for free, online. They can be hard to find, but they are available.
- How are you making money? What are the expected net/gross income? How are you going to convince them to pay?
