Digital marketplace to facilitate transactions of creative works

摘要

A method of auctioning a creative work is disclosed. The method may include initiating an auction for the creative work, where one or more successful bidders receive at least one copy of the creative work, and receiving bids for the creative work from potential buyers. The method may also include closing the auction, determining the successful bidders, generating a limited number of copies of the creative work, the limited number based in part on the determined successful bidders, where each of the limited number of copies is associated with a unique identifier, and awarding each successful bidder at least one of the limited number of copies.