CrowdSorcery is a proposed collaborative publishing and design system that implements microroyalties to compensate contributors proportionally based on the quality and importance of their individual contributions. This aims to attract higher quality contributions by addressing intellectual property issues and incentivizing participation through compensation, thereby enabling large-scale collaborative projects across a variety of domains.

1. CrowdSorcery®
An ecosystem for collaborative innovators and authors

2. Non-profit Content
Creation
• National Public Radio (NPR), Public
Television
• Wikipedia
• U.S. Government-Sponsored Research
• Standards Bodies of Industry Organizations
(SAE,IEEE,etc)

3. For-profit Content
Creation
• Gartner and other research and consulting
organizations
• Trade Publications
• Textbook Publishers
• Individual and Small Groups of Authors and
their Publishers
• Ad-sponsored Newspapers, Television, Radio

4. Wikipedia
• Wikipedia provides content at no cost to
users while requesting donations, similarly to
NPR
• Some content achieves high quality, but not
always as predictable quality as other
systems probably because
• Wikipedia depends on unpaid contributors
• NPR and most other non-profit models pay
their contributors

5. Crowdsorcery
• Implements the microroyalties concept
• Royalties are paid based on smaller units of
contribution to a collaborative work rather
than the entire work as a whole
• An improvement upon current wiki
technology
• Required for industrial use large-scale
collaborative e-publishing and design of large
systems

6. Crowdsorcery
• Attracts the higher quality contributions and
expertise because contributors are
remunerated
• Compensates small contributions as well as
large contributions proportional to the value
of the contribution
• Free market of ideas

7. Crowdsorcery
• Promotes inclusivity in the design and
development of new concepts; highly
credentialed experts play on a level playing
field with newer upcoming talent to the
benefit of both
• Allows best ideas to percolate to attention
and assigns appropriate credit for the best
work

8. Idea Fair Trade and Fair
Use
• Provides a mechanism for monetization of
ideas in an fair and predictable manner
• Each contribution to a document or design
artifact is rated for its value
• Contributors retain their intellectual
property rights, but agree to license them
using Crowdsorcery’s model

9. Idea Fair Trade and Fair
Use
• Clarity regarding compensation to
contributors and their employers reduces
their IP-protection concerns
• With their IP protected, contributors are
able to be both more productive and more
collaborative

10. Monetization
• The Crowdsorcery system is funded via
advertising, commissioning fees, book sales,
and/or subscription fees like other content
creation/distribution methods
• Best monetization mechanism can be
decided by the commissioner in consultation
with Crowdsorcery staff

11. Distribution of License
Fees
• Income from collaboratively created
products are distributed to contributors
based on the importance and value of their
submission
• How to value submissions can be
determined by the owner/commissioner of a
project

12. Potential Applications
• Training manuals created by numerous
expert contributors, eg, FAA Airplane Flying
Handbook
• Interoperability or compatibility standards
• Expert-written online resources
• Government projects requiring specialized
expertise

13. Summary
• Collaborative online publishing and design
system
• Compensates contributors based on the
quality and importance of their additions,
which incentivizes more knowledgeable
contributors to participate
• Anticipates and counteracts intellectual
property issues
• Lowers barriers to productive work
• Stimulates the economy and creates jobs in
jobless economic recoveries