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or Dolly Parton, who turned her incredible talent and fame into a whole world of businesses and even a theme park that celebrates where she comes from in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee.

Now, these are people at the top of their game who use their agency to take these bigger risks.

But what if you didn't have to be in the 1 percent to get that chance?

What if these sort of tools and self-determination were part of every artist's kit?

So this is not a government handout, this is not a charity, this is not a special favor, this is the exact opposite.

Right now, creative people are excluded from the full benefits of capitalism.

Artist corporations will treat them as real economic actors for the first time.

Creating a consistent structure for how we value creative work is going to cause a revolution in how these industries operate, and it's going to bring more money into the space than we've ever seen before.

A lot of it coming from fans who just want to support the world they want to see and won't be looking for a big financial return.

Other people will, and I fully expect venture capital for artists and creators to become a real thing.

And to be honest, this is where I start to get nervous.

but then I remember the way things are now, and that in the past, artists have had to answer to the church, the kings, the aristocracy, wealthy patrons, network executives, now corporate algorithms.

But artist corporations finally give us our own seat at the table.

To make this a reality, we're following an established path for making new corporate forms, and we have people on our team who have successfully done this before.

A lot of this work will be happening in public,

building a coalition of artists, creators, fans, investors, politicians, all people who believe that artist corporations are a good thing for everybody.

Because this isn't anti-tech, this isn't anti-AI.

This is about what type of world we want to live in.

One where we rent access to corporate-controlled, AI-generated platforms,

or one where our creative and cultural institutions are owned by the people who made them.