Mythical Games, a startup out of stealth today with $16 million in Series A funding, is embracing a future in gaming where user-generated content and intimate ties between players, content creators, brands and developers is the norm.
"When creators put user-generated content into YouTube," Mr. Sullivan said, "this will allow that content to get monetized properly, so that the creator gets paid, and the songwriter and publisher gets accounted to and paid".
For once, the creators of user-generated content will be compensated for making all these valuable Web 2.0 properties YouTube, FaceBook, Twitter, etc. worth as much as they are.
According to Posetti, creators of user-generated content are sharing the public domain in debates about Gaza and other hotspots to grab various audiences' attention.
Soundcloud is sometimes dubbed the "YouTube for audio" because of its emphasis on user-generated content and focus on providing a platform for creators to distribute their work as much as it is a place for consumers to discover it.
With the emergence of user-generated content (UGC) concept, an individual's role as a creator and active evaluator of the shared Web information has become central, and perhaps will become critical in future.
For Web surfers to trust bloggers and user-generated content, it's important for them to be able to authenticate who the creator is, Ahearn said.
Only about 5% of the total user base are "creators," he says, which is similar to any online community based on user-generated content.
USER-GENERATED content — from Wikipedia to YouTube to open-source software — is generating waves of excitement.
Many musicians and creators say the legislation will compensate artists fairly - but others argue that they will destroy user-generated content.
14. Contribution (UGC) User-generated content has now entered our lexicon and is the prime example of how convergence in the digital world involves consumers moving into the role of content creator.
