KR101211314B1 - Profit distribution system for works of art and their deirved goods in online open market - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A profit distribution system in an open market of art work and a derivation is provided to distribute the art work and the derivation which are composed in one system, thereby attracting more writers and more buyers. CONSTITUTION: A writer terminal(10) has a copyright of art work. A broker terminal(20) acquires the art work of an original author. The broker terminal mediates sale of the acquired art work. The broker terminal registers the art work and a derivation in an open market site(110) and performs sale agency. A buyer terminal(30) purchases the art work or the derivation through an exclusive broker page in the broker terminal.

Description

Open Market Revenue Sharing System for Art and Derivatives

The present invention relates to a system for selling goods using an open market online, and more particularly, to a system and method for how to process the profit while selling art through the open market.

Human history has produced art through human creative activities, and has enjoyed, recorded, preserved and inherited the art. At the center was the work of artists. This became the cornerstone of cultural development. However, in the history of art, there was not always a legitimate reward for artists who are the subjects of creative activities. In reality, many artists have complained of economic difficulties.

The economic difficulties of artists are based on the fact that the distribution network of works is not stable and that they are not compensated by fair prices. Although the works of some renowned artists are distributed through closed auctions, they are only a fraction of the total.

Meanwhile, there are ways to publish and sell works online. Until the end of the 20th century, this was not conceived. However, because the works of prominent artists come and go largely, the online sales method was not practical and was usually distributed through auctions. And most of the artworks auctioned off were auctions that transferred ownership because the copyrighted property disappeared and only the ownership remained.

Copyright occurs when an artist completes a work of art. The property value of the works of art was the transfer of ownership and the economic income from copyright. In the conventional distribution of art, the artist realized economic profit only through the transfer of ownership, but the economic income from the copyrighted property was very opaque. This problem was due to the lack of a platform to transparently protect the copyright of art.

Today, with the development of digital technology, digital and printed images are widely used. Although the rights of digital and printed images are owned by the copyright holder, the copyright holder is not properly paid or transparently processed. There was a problem.

Although copyright is granted as a right to creators to further their creative activities, many artists have not been able to obtain a legitimate profit. As a result, the initial transfer of ownership (the sale of the work) relied on economic survival, and in general, this initial sale was only driven by lower prices.

The present invention solves the problems of the prior art as described above, the present invention has been completed after a long research effort with the motif of developing means for solving the problems of the prior art.

An object of the present invention is to provide a novel online open market of art. Through this, a number of writers, brokers, sellers and buyers are trying to establish a system that accurately distributes information and tries to be transparent. Due to the nature of artists' creative activities, planning, promotion, distribution, and storage other than creation are difficult, so an intermediary is required to do the job. The current open market system is divided into sellers and consumers (buyers) only. The present invention provides an online open market divided into novel artists / brokers / sellers / consumers (buyers) of art.

Another object of the present invention is to inspire the artist's creative activity by ensuring that the system distributes the profits that were not previously available to the original artists in a layered and automatic manner. By making artists work with higher creative motivation, they will increase the value of their works so that the interests of investors and buyers can be promoted together.

On the other hand, other unspecified purposes of the present invention will be further considered within the scope of the following detailed description and easily deduced from the effects thereof.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is:

A server running an online open market site of art and derivatives thereof;

A plurality of intermediary terminals that access the server and register and sell the works of art and their derivatives online on a dedicated intermediary page;

A writer's terminal requesting the intermediary terminal to sell artwork or derivatives thereof; And

And a buyer terminal for purchasing an artwork or a derivative thereof through the dedicated broker page of the broker terminal.

The buyer terminal may request resale of the artwork or its derivatives through the intermediary terminal (the buyer terminal will function in the system as a seller terminal), and twice for the artwork or its derivatives by the intermediary terminal. In the case where the above sales event occurs, when the corresponding sales event is higher than the immediately preceding sales event, the revenue according to the pre-registered profit share ratio is deposited to the account of the artist terminal for each sales event.

In a system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the derivative may include an image selling right of the art.

In addition, in the profit distribution method according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the profit (T) paid to the artist terminal is preferably calculated by the following equation.

(N and M are integers greater than 1, and P (K) is the product of the k-th art price minus the k-1th art price. F (K) is the amount multiplied by the pre-registered profit share if the value of the k-th derivative price minus the k-1th derivative price is greater than the reference value.)

In another aspect of the invention, a server for operating an online open market site of art;

A plurality of intermediary terminals connected to the server to register artworks on a dedicated intermediary page for sale online;

An artist's terminal requesting the intermediary terminal to sell artworks; And

And a buyer terminal for purchasing an artwork through the dedicated broker page of the broker terminal.

The buyer terminal may request resale of the artwork through the intermediary terminal (the buyer terminal will function in the system as a seller terminal), and if more than one sale event occurs for the artwork by the intermediary terminal, When the sales event is higher than the immediately preceding sales event, each sales event is characterized by depositing the proceeds according to the pre-registered revenue share in the account of the artist terminal.

In addition, another aspect of the present invention, a server for operating an online open market site of art derivatives including digital image sales rights of art;

A plurality of intermediary terminals connected to the server and registering and selling the derivative works of art on a dedicated intermediary page for online sale;

An artist's terminal requesting the intermediary terminal to sell artwork derivatives; And

And a buyer terminal for purchasing a derivative work of art through the dedicated broker page of the broker terminal.

The buyer terminal may request resale of the art derivative through the intermediary terminal (the buyer terminal will function in the system as a seller terminal), and at least two sales events for the art derivative by the mediator terminal When the sale event is higher than the sale event immediately before the event, it is characterized by depositing the proceeds according to the pre-registered profit share ratio to the account of the artist terminal for each sale event.

According to the present invention as described above, more artists and more buyers are secured because the artists, intermediaries, buyers and sellers are all integrated into one system and the transparent distribution of art and / or its derivatives in one system is guaranteed. There is an advantage to attract.

In addition, it is very important to guarantee the artist's economic profit because art works are important for the artist's creative activities. In the present invention, there is an advantage that the economic profit of the artist is newly generated at each layer when the ownership of the original artwork is transferred and the investment profit of the investor (buyer) is realized. In addition, derivative works of art also bring economic benefits to the artist. This is a much more transparent and economical return to the artist than the previous system.

Even if effects not specifically mentioned in the specification of the present invention are incorporated, the provisional effects expected by the technical features of the present invention are treated as described in the specification of the present invention.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS It is a figure which shows the schematic structural example of the online market system of the artwork of this invention.
2 is a view conceptually showing the relationship between the original work of art and its derivatives.
3 is a diagram illustrating a concept in which revenue is distributed to a writer in accordance with the system of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a concept of serial profit sharing returned to an author when a work of art is serially sold according to the system of an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a concept of serial profit sharing returned to an author when a derivative (digital image sales right) of a work of art is serially sold according to the system of an embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a diagram illustrating a process of selling a digital image by a person having a digital image selling right according to the system of the present invention.
* The accompanying drawings illustrate examples of the present invention in order to facilitate understanding of the technical idea of the present invention, and thus the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description of the present invention, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may obscure the subject matter of the present invention.

1 schematically shows an example of an online market system configuration according to the present invention. The artist terminal 10, the intermediary terminal 20, the purchaser terminal 30, and the seller terminal 40 access the art open market server 100 through the wired / wireless internet 11. The art open market server 100 is a system operation server and operates an open market site 110 including a plurality of web pages. The open market site 110 may be configured as a mobile page dedicated to a mobile device such as a smartphone. The art open market server 100 establishes a plurality of databases 120, 122, and 124. The database 120 may store member information. Member information may be classified into artist members, intermediary members, buyer members, seller members, and the like. The database 122 may record information on artwork and a history of selling artwork. The database 124 may include various fee and billing information. In addition, a log database for storing various event logs, and a database for recording various text, image, and video information may be included. In addition, the online market system of the present invention may further include various additional servers for the processing of various charges, access of each terminal, content transmission, database management and the like. Accounting server 130 and DB server 140 is an example. Since such a system configuration of the present invention is for illustration, more terminals and more various functions and components can be added.

Open market site 110 is a writer terminal 10, intermediary terminal 20, buyer terminal 30, each dedicated page of the seller terminal 40, search engine and search interface, various content posted on the screen, billing Programs and the like.

The artist terminal 10 is the original terminal of the artwork, the first owner of the artwork and has a copyright. The intermediary terminal 20 is a terminal of the intermediary to take over the artwork of the original author and relay the sale, and registers the artwork and its derivatives on the open market site 110 and performs the sales agency. The purchaser terminal 30 is a terminal of a person who purchases an artwork or a derivative thereof. They may function as a seller terminal when selling art or derivatives thereof in the open market site 110 of the present invention. The seller terminal 40 is a terminal of a person who sells an art or a derivative thereof, and sells the art or a derivative thereof through the intermediary terminal 20 in a re-auction or resale method.

In the present invention, "art" means a work of art that generates ownership and copyright. Also, “derivatives” are objects or rights derived from works of art, which are reproductions of works of art, images of works of reproduction, images as secondary works of works of art, sales of digital images of works of art, sales of print images of works of art, copies of works of art or the above. Defined as containing a product made using images. In the present invention, these works of art and their derivatives are auctioned, re-auctioned, sold and resold. 2 conceptually illustrates the relationship between art and its derivatives. If there is an original work of art (1), an image selling right (2), an image (3), and a product (5) derived therefrom may occur. Art can be duplicated by traditional methods, but with the development of digital photography technology today, it can be copied and transmitted as a digital image. The image selling right 2 can be understood as a right to profit by selling the digital image 2a to a plurality of users.

Digital images are derivatives in the form of duplicate image files of original artwork, for example digital images that can be used in homepages, electronic catalogs, e-books, and the like. The size, resolution, and file format of the digital image can be optimized in various ways. The image for printing is an image output by a printer connected to the purchaser terminal 30 and may be used in a catalog or a booklet.

In the present invention, the artist terminal 10 may register the artwork in the open market site 110 of the present invention. The registration procedure may be performed by the intermediary terminal 10. In this case, the user interface for registration may include an original artwork registration means, a digital image sales right registration means, a digital / print image registration means, and a product registration means manufactured as a derivative.

3 conceptually illustrates how the artist, who is the original author of an artwork, by the system of the present invention, obtains a layered and serial profit. Information on the author terminal 10 and information on various purchase events (including auction events) are recorded and stored in the online market system 109. The fee paid to the artist according to the purchase event may be updated with information of the artist terminal. The original author of the artwork functions as an artist terminal in an online system, but this is only a systemic point of view, and the fee paid to the artist terminal means profits paid to the artist.

As shown, the artist terminal 10 will provide the original market and the derivative works of the artwork to the online market system 109. Art works are traditionally sold by a broker, and in the preferred embodiment of the present invention, when a sale price is determined by auction method, ownership of the art works is transferred through a predetermined charging process. The original work of art is handed over to a successful bidder through a broker. In this case, the first fee P ₁ is paid to the artist (creation of the artist's profit), and may be preferably transferred to the account of the artist terminal 10 registered in the system.

However, in the present invention, the artist guarantees the middle and serial profits. When the successful bidder (first purchaser) resells through the system of the present invention again through re-auctioning, the selling price (second selling price) of the artwork rises above the price purchased by the first buyer (first selling price). If the amount is larger than the standard value determined by the system operation server or the intermediary terminal, a certain fee (P ₂ ) is paid to the artist based on the profit sharing ratio registered in the system among the difference (second selling price-first selling price). can do. Likewise, each time such a resale accumulates, the revenue the artist receives is “P ₁ + P ₂ …. By increasing to + P _N ”(where N is an integer greater than 1, but only if the selling price is greater than the previous price), additional income can be guaranteed as the value of the work increases. In the past, the artist could not receive additional income due to the increase in the value of the work of art, but the system of the present invention has the advantage that the artist may also benefit from the increase in the value of the work through re-auction (resale).

In addition, the layered and serial revenue guarantees given to the artist can be carried out on derivatives of art. Derivatives here are the processes for 'sell rights' among derivatives. When the first purchaser (which can also be auctioned) (the first purchaser) resells through the system of the present invention, the price of the sales right (second selling price) purchased by the first purchaser. If the amount is higher than the first selling price, if the amount is larger than the threshold determined by the system operation server or the intermediary terminal, the difference is calculated based on the profit sharing ratio registered in advance in the system among the differences (second selling price-first selling price). A certain fee (F ₂ ) can be paid to the artist. Likewise, each time such a resale accumulates, the artist receives a profit of “F ₁ + F ₂ . + F _M ”(where M is an integer greater than 1, but only if the selling price is greater than the previous price), additional income can be guaranteed as the value of the work increases. When the value of a work of art rises or the value of derivatives in the trading industry increases, the value of the right of sale naturally increases. This means that the royalties are calculated serially. Previously, the artist could not receive additional income other than the initial royalty fee with respect to the derivatives, but the system of the present invention has the advantage that the artist can also benefit from the increase in the value of the work through re-auction (resale).

Therefore, the gross income T of the artist according to the system of the present invention can be calculated as in the following Equation 1.

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(Equation 1)

(P (K) is the amount multiplied by the pre-registered profit share if the value of the k-th art price minus the k-1th art price is greater than the reference value. If the sale price of the kth derivative is subtracted from the sale price of the k-1th derivative, it is the amount multiplied by the registered profit share.

Figure 4 schematically shows a process of redistributing the profits of the resale of the art to the artist according to an embodiment of the present invention. The artist of the work of art asks the broker to auction the work of art. The writer and the intermediary have a relationship between the writer terminal 10 and the intermediary terminal 20 in the system of the present invention. In the present invention, there are a plurality of author terminals 10 and a plurality of intermediary terminals 20. Each intermediary terminal 20 has its own dedicated intermediary page 111. They can retrieve information about each other.

The artist terminal 10 connects to the mediator page 111 and requests the relay of works of art (①). The artist can hand over the original artwork to the intermediary. The intermediary terminal 20 publishes the information of the original artwork through the intermediary page 111 and is preferably sold in an auction manner (②). Then the original buyer N ₁ (31) pays the purchase price for the original art work to the intermediary terminal 20 (③), the intermediary terminal 20 deposits the sale price excluding the predetermined relay fee to the artist terminal (10) (④). All information related to billing is recorded.

If the original buyer N1 31 wishes to resell over time, the original buyer N ₁ 31 may access the intermediary page 111 and request re-auctioning from the intermediary terminal 20 (⑤). Then, the intermediary terminal 20 is made to sell again to transfer ownership of the original artwork (preferably in a re-auctioning manner). If the original purchaser N ₂ vehicles terminal (20) to (32) were sold to original works of art (⑥), and the original purchaser N ₂ (32) paid the purchase price to the intermediary station (20) (⑦), the predetermined relay The amount minus the fee will be credited to the original purchaser N ₁ (31) (⑧).

At this time, the resale price may be larger than the previous sale price (in the case of art, the value of the work often increases with time). At this time, a portion of the difference minus the selling price from the resale price (which can be determined by the profit share ratio) is deposited as revenue to the artist terminal 10 (⑨). The difference between the resale price and the payout is not necessarily the profit paid to the artist terminal 10. For example, if the resale amount minus the previous sale amount is greater than the predetermined threshold, 1% of the amount may be the original revenue. Alternatively, a portion of the relay fee may be used as the original revenue, and may be variously modified and settled. The important thing is that the original proceeds can be generated whenever the investor (art buyer) re-auctions the art and realizes the investment.

The intermediary terminal 20 that relayed the resale may be the same as or different from the intermediary terminal that sold the original artwork. In other cases, since the information on the sales history of the original artwork is all recorded in the database of the system of the present invention, the transparent transaction of the artwork is guaranteed.

FIG. 5 schematically illustrates the process of redistributing the profits to the artist when the digital image sales right as a derivative of the art is resold as shown in FIG. 4 according to the present invention. As in FIG. 4, the writer and the intermediary have a relationship between the writer terminal 10 and the intermediary terminal 20 in the system of the present invention. In the present invention, there are a plurality of author terminals 10 and a plurality of intermediary terminals 20. Each intermediary terminal 20 has its own dedicated intermediary page 111. They can retrieve information about each other. The intermediary terminal of FIG. 4 and the intermediary terminal of FIG. 5 may be the same or different.

The writer terminal 10 connects to the mediator page 111 and requests a relay on digital image sales (ⓐ). The intermediary terminal 20 publishes original artwork information and digital image sales rights through the intermediary page 111 and sells them to a plurality of buyers (ⓑ). Preferably it is sold by auction method. Then, the original purchaser N ₁ 33 of the digital image selling right pays the purchase price for the digital image selling right to the intermediary terminal 20 (ⓒ), and the intermediary terminal 20 pays the selling price excluding the predetermined relay fee. 10) will be deposited as a royalty (ⓓ). All information related to billing is recorded.

If the digital image dealership N ₁ 33 wishes to resell over time, the original buyer N ₁ 31 may access the intermediary page 111 and request re-auctioning from the intermediary terminal 20 ( Ⓔ). Then, the intermediary terminal 20 is to resell the digital image sales right again (preferably can be made in a re-auction). When the mediator terminal 20 sells the digital image dealership to the original digital image dealership buyer N ₂ (34) (ⓕ), the buyer N ₂ (34) pays the dealership purchase price to the broker terminal terminal 20 (ⓖ), The amount after subtracting the predetermined relay fee is deposited to the previous buyer N ₁ (33) (ⓗ).

At this time, the resale price may be larger than the previous sale price (when the value of the original artwork increases, the right to sell digital images also increases). At this time, a portion of the difference minus the selling price from the resale price (which may be determined by the ratio of the difference) is deposited to the artist terminal 10 as revenue (ⓘ). By this process, original revenues can be accumulated in series.

The intermediary terminal 20 relaying the resale of the digital image selling right may be the same as or different from the intermediary terminal selling the corresponding digital image selling right. In other cases, since all information on the sales history of the digital image sales right is recorded in the database of the system of the present invention, the transparent transaction of the artwork is guaranteed.

FIG. 6 shows an embodiment of the present invention for the case where the digital image dealership A 35 sells his digital image in the process as shown in FIG. Although the embodiment of FIG. 5 relates to a process relating to the sale or resale of a digital image sales right, FIG. 6 relates to a process in which a purchaser of a digital image sales right sells the digital image using the system of the present invention. That is, the embodiment in the case of using the digital image sales right.

The digital image selling right buyer A 35 may access the mediator page 111 and request the digital terminal to sell the digital image (⑴). The intermediary terminal 20 will sell the corresponding digital image to a plurality of users through the intermediary page 111 (⑵). When the digital image buyer B 36 pays the purchase price, the image can be purchased and used (⑶). The intermediary terminal 20 then deposits the sale price excluding the predetermined relay fee to the digital image dealership A 35 (⑷).

The digital image retailer purchaser A 35 pays the royalties paid to the artist terminal 10, which may be paid in various ways. At the time of purchasing the initial sales right, it may be paid at a time, and as shown in FIG. 6, a royalty may be paid every time the digital image is sold (⑸). In either case, all sales events are recorded in the system.

In the system of the present invention, the online open market site is preferably a plurality of web pages connected through the Internet. It can also be transformed into mobile pages optimized by mobile devices such as smartphones or tablet PCs.

In addition, the digital image is not only limited to a still image, but also a video file.

Each terminal such as the writer terminal 10, the intermediary terminal 20, the purchaser terminal 30, and the like may be given a respective dedicated page in the system of the present invention. In the case of the artist terminal 10, his original artwork was sold through a certain broker, sold several times, and sold to whom, and during this time, information such as a history of revenue paid to the artist due to the sale of the artwork can be checked. . The same applies to derivatives of art.

The intermediary terminal 20 can confirm the sales history information and sales status of the artwork and / or its derivatives, and post the artwork and / or its derivatives to be sold on a dedicated page. The purchaser terminal 30 may also search for a purchase history through its own page.

In the system of the present invention, not only the function related to the sale and purchase of the art and its derivatives described above, but also the information search function for the artist and the information search function for the artwork can be provided. Users can also connect to create a community.

The protection scope of the present invention is not limited to the description and expression of the embodiments explicitly described above. In addition, it is further noted that the protection scope of the present invention may not be limited due to obvious changes or substitutions in the technical field to which the present invention belongs.

Claims (5)

A server running an online open market site of art and derivatives thereof;
A plurality of intermediary terminals that access the server and register and sell the works of art and their derivatives online on a dedicated intermediary page;
An artist's terminal requesting an auction of an artwork and a derivative thereof from the intermediary terminal; And
And a buyer terminal for purchasing an artwork or a derivative thereof through an auction through the dedicated broker page of the broker terminal.
The purchaser terminal may request re-auctioning of the artwork and its derivatives through the intermediary terminal (the buyer terminal will function in the system as a seller terminal) and twice for the artwork or derivative thereof by the intermediary terminal. In the case where the above sales event occurs, when the price of the sales event is higher than the price of the immediately preceding sales event, it is characterized by depositing the proceeds according to the profit share registered in the account of the author terminal for each sales event, Online open market system of art and its derivatives. The method of claim 1,
Wherein said derivative comprises an image selling right of said art. The method of claim 1,
Proceeds (T) paid to the artist terminal is calculated by the following formula online open market system of art and its derivatives.

(N and M are integers greater than 1, and P (K) is the product of the k-th art price minus the k-1th art price. F (K) is the amount multiplied by the pre-registered profit share if the value of the k-th derivative price minus the k-1th derivative price is greater than the reference value.) A server running an online open market site of art;
A plurality of intermediary terminals connected to the server to register artworks on a dedicated intermediary page for sale online;
An artist's terminal requesting an auction of artwork from the broker terminal; And
And a buyer terminal for purchasing artwork through an auction through the dedicated broker page of the broker terminal.
The buyer terminal may request re-auction of the artwork through the intermediary terminal (the buyer terminal functions in the system as a seller terminal), and if more than one sales event occurs for the artwork by the intermediary terminal, If the price of the sale event is higher than the price of the immediately preceding sale event, the online open market system of the artwork, characterized in that for depositing the proceeds according to the revenue share registered in advance in the account of the artist terminal for each sale event. A server operating an online open market site of art derivatives, including a digital image sales right of art;
A plurality of intermediary terminals connected to the server to register digital image sales rights of artworks on a dedicated intermediary page for online sale;
An artist's terminal for requesting an auction of a digital image selling right of an artwork to the broker terminal; And
And a buyer terminal for purchasing a digital image selling right of the artwork through an auction through the dedicated broker page of the broker terminal.
The buyer terminal may request re-auctioning of the digital image selling right of the artwork through the intermediary terminal (the buyer terminal functions in the system as a seller terminal), and twice for the digital image selling right of the artwork by the intermediary terminal. In the case where the above sales event occurs, when the price of the sales event is higher than the price of the immediately preceding sales event, it is characterized by depositing the proceeds according to the profit share registered in the account of the author terminal for each sales event, Online open market system of art derivatives.

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