A collaborative online workshop can properly compensate the creative participants.

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Perhaps the most important part of creating an effective environment for content-sharing is to ensure that everyone whose material is used in a collaborative work receives a fair share of whatever revenue the composite work may generate, whether from advertising or from pay-per-click charges.  Specifically, what is needed is a simple, fair, and equitable system that everybody understands and agrees to as a precondition of making content available on the system.

Once this is established, administering the system and apportioning out earnings is a function that can be readily performed by the same entity that incents people to categorize and recommend content. 

Fortunately, this can be accomplished using essentially the same techniques discussed for building collaborative writing “from parts” in earlier sections of this essay. 

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