METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING CREATION AND PROMOTION OF CREATIVE WORKS

摘要

A method and system for facilitating the creation and promotion ofcreative works involves displaying or providing information about one ormore undeveloped creative works, and receiving and processing requestsfor purchases of benefits relating to selected ones of the undevelopedcreative works. Patron information is stored in a manner associated itwith work under development selected by the user. Monetary amountsreceived from patrons relating to the undeveloped works are aggregatedand, at a certain point, made available to the producer of the work to bedeveloped. Patrons may be notified concerning availability of the selectedand previously purchased benefits relating to the patron's sponsorship ofthe particular work. The benefit may be redeemed or obtained in avariety of different manners, depending upon the nature of the benefit.