Street Performer Protocol

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The Street Performer Protocol (SPP, English for " Street Artist Protocol ") is a method of promoting the creation of creative works that are made available to the public in the public domain .

It was developed by cryptologists John Kelsey and Bruce Schneier from Counterpane Systems (based on older ideas). The underlying insight is that traditional forms of copyright law will be difficult to enforce in the future as copying and sharing of information becomes easier and easier through new media such as the Internet. Concepts for maintaining copyright, such as B. DRM must fail (the variants are discussed in detail) without curtailing democratic principles ("And finally, the necessary measures to prevent widespread copyright infringements amount to creating the legal and technical infrastructure for widespread censorship.").

The SPP is presented as an alternative: With the SPP, the author (of a book, piece of music, software, etc.) announces that he will publish his work without further restrictions as soon as he receives a certain amount of money in advance. Interested users donate to the publisher (comparable to a publisher ), who manages the payments received. If the trade takes place, publishers and authors are paid. Otherwise, the publisher will return the money to the donors, possibly with interest.

The SPP is based on the author's good reputation. Donors must be able to assume that he will meet the expectations and produce works they appreciate. It is therefore assumed that the author has already built up such a good reputation, for example by having already published such public domain works - this could be, for example, the previous chapters of a sequel story .

The publisher can act as a traditional publisher by reviewing submitted sample work, or act as a trustee.

History of the Street Performer Protocol

The SPP is a natural extension of the much older idea of ​​supporting the production of written books through agreements between groups of potential readers, for example in subscription models .

When the source text and the brand name of the 3D modeling program Blender were published , the SPP was successfully implemented. After NaN Technologies went bankrupt in 2002, Blender's copyrights went to the newly established NaN Holding BV. The newly established Blender Foundation started a campaign and succeeded in raising the € 100,000 required by NaN Holding BV to put Blender under the GNU GPL as open source software . More than 1300 users became members and donated more than € 50 each, plus anonymous donors, individual donations and donations from companies. On October 13, 2002, Blender was put on the Internet as open source software.

Variants and alternatives

Variants of the SPP are, for example, the Rational Street Performer Protocol and the Wall Street Performer Protocol . Starting around 2006, the very similar crowdfunding financing became very popular.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Blender Foundation Launches Campaign to Open Blender Source on linuxtoday (July 22, 2002)
  2. ↑ 'Free Blender Fund' campaign ( Memento of October 10, 2002 in the Internet Archive ) archived 2002
  3. ↑ Membership ( Memento of October 10, 2002 in the Internet Archive ) People can subscribe to become Foundation Member. Members who subscribe during the campaign period, get additional benefits for their support. During campaign: - Costs: minimum one time fee of EUR 50 (or USD 50) (archived 2002)

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