The idea of creating IPs collectively is not new. In fact, I don't believe that there is a creator who assumes that his or her creation is 100% his or hers, but rather, an accumulation of influences that end up shaping his or her art or work.

The influences that each of them receive; what the painter sees, what the writer hears... after all, generates that work in the unconscious mixing pot of his being, in the organization of his mind, which finally executes the tangible and real expression in his art form.

However, the commercial exploitation of this work is another story. There is no doubt that this is an open debate that transcends the limits of art.

It takes us to the field of inventors and patents where, usually, those who were obtaining the patents for the invention were not exactly the first ones to have invented it. We are talking here not about the discernment, morphology, or genesis of a creation, but of the commercial exploitation of that artistic manifestation (yes, inventions are art too).

That is why intellectual property is a fascinating field.

I once heard at one of those “Long-table meetings” and general "opinionology" in the audiovisual industry, the sentence: "The idea belongs to the one who executes it" and, after all, it ended up being true; we all have ideas, but the manifestation of that idea in a commercial product is something different.

The interesting fact is, that for an artist the manifestation of his idea is a visceral need, a drive, the contact between the beyond and what we consider to be the real world.

Perhaps that is why, in general terms, the real artists were, and are, far from these commercial management structures. Their time is spent mainly in the translation and transduction of that idea in the "ether" to the material world.

That is why perhaps, we see repeatedly in history, great artists being bankrupted (Financially speaking) or struggling daily to sustain the structure of a world based on the monetary system that they had to live in... That we had to live in.

It’s is exciting the time we are living in, where it seems that the old paradigm of the monetary system we were born with is starting to crack or at least starting to have a clear alternative based on decentralization.

After all, art is not related to a monetary system at all, but the life of the artist who lives in this world like anyone else, clearly is.

And we need creators, people who, without perhaps thinking about it, are willing to express that visceral need they take from the "ether" which shapes our physical world, so that in the end we will are able to see ourselves reflected in that work, leading us to the reflection of new ideas, to the final thought of who we are and what are we doing here.

Art, in any of its forms, is the connection between these two worlds... and we need, as a key point in the evolution of humanity, these transducers of flesh and blood that reconnect us with our point of origin, perhaps to that "ether".

How can technology disrupt the monetary system that so often alienates the creator from the commercial world?

A technology which directly connects the creator with those who understand the intrinsic and expanded value of that work, and of all artistic manifestations.

I believe that we are entering a crucial stage, perhaps something never before experienced in this society, where creators should only be concerned with expressing their art. Mainly because distribution systems may change with the acquisition of a new decentralized financial system.

When distribution systems change, exploitation systems mutate and transform... and when this happens, we are talking about a new paradigm in the artistic-cultural industries.

And audiovisual art is perhaps the one reaching more directly to that unconscious connection, based on the fast consumption habits and the direct reflection that the stories have in our being when told in this format.

Undoubtedly, it is a very interesting moment where these three big issues: Art, Intellectual Property and Monetary System will go though constant change, experimentation and will play an evolutionary role.

It is a great moment not only to be an artist, but also to acknowledge once and for all that we are all creators. That this role is not only assigned to those who have been able to build a job or a career out of it.

We are all creators.

What a great time to be alive and to see this game of a general awakening. I can't help but feel total gratitude for being a witness to this great part of history.