Creator compensation refers to the economic mechanisms by which content creators are paid for their work, including royalties, revenue sharing, tipping, and tokenised ownership rights. In blockchain contexts it is often automated through smart contracts that distribute proceeds on primary sale and secondary resale. It is central to sustainable creator economies and to debates over fair value capture on digital platforms.
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- On-chain models encode payout splits and resale royalties directly into smart contracts, enabling programmable, transparent distribution to multiple stakeholders. Enforcement of secondary-sale royalties remains contested across marketplaces, motivating standards and protocol-level approaches to guarantee creator earnings.