The reason the idea of revenue sharing alarms me is because - look at who would be implementing.
That's right. LJ.
Revenue sharing would end up giving them yet another tool to exercise more power and control over LJ users, particularly fandom, and yet it would bind more users to LJ, and possibly lead to issues such as, oh, incest-type fanfic comms being charged "more" or receiving "less" revenue and then if the moderator decides to move elsewhere, possibly being told, "sorry, that's our content, we paid you for it, you can't post it on IJ."
Given what we've seen of LJ's customer relations abilities, this does not seem to be an unreasonable fear. Sadly.
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carisma_sensei
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Date: 2008-03-20 10:53 pm (UTC)That's right. LJ.
Revenue sharing would end up giving them yet another tool to exercise more power and control over LJ users, particularly fandom, and yet it would bind more users to LJ, and possibly lead to issues such as, oh, incest-type fanfic comms being charged "more" or receiving "less" revenue and then if the moderator decides to move elsewhere, possibly being told, "sorry, that's our content, we paid you for it, you can't post it on IJ."
Given what we've seen of LJ's customer relations abilities, this does not seem to be an unreasonable fear. Sadly.