Success in the free-copy world is not derived from the skills of distribution since the [internet] takes care of that. Nor are legal skills surrounding Intellectual Property and Copyright very useful anymore. Nor are the skills of hoarding and scarcity. Rather, these new eight generatives demand an understanding of how abundance breeds a sharing mindset, how generosity is a business model, how vital it has become to cultivate and nurture qualities that can’t be replicated with a click of the mouse.
Kevin Kelly, discussing what becomes valuable when the cost of reproducing creative works is nil (via syntheticpubes)

