An online network based e-commerce and investment system for online selling and investing in non-physical goods includes a listing management module, a distribution management module, a trading management module, an account management module and a disbursal management module. The listing management module is used to generate online product listings of the non-physical goods and to generate online listings of ownership shares of the non-physical goods. The distribution management module is used for online selling and for online distributing of copies of the non-physical goods. The trading management module is used for online investing and trading of the ownership shares of the non-physical goods. The account management module creates and maintains user accounts and keeps track of ownership share holdings for each user. The disbursal management module distributes profits from the sales of the non-physical goods to the user accounts. Non- physical goods include music, video, e-books, publications, patents and designs among others.
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