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Francis Muguet40 and I have developed a new proposal called the M&#233;c&#233;nat Global (or Global Patronage) which combines the idea of tax-support and voluntary payments.41 Every Internet subscriber would pay a monthly fee to support certain arts that are shared on the Internet. Each user could optionally divide up to a certain maximum portion of her fee among her choice of works; the funds for each work would be divided among the creative contributors to the work (but not the publishers). The totals thus assigned to various artists would also provide a measure of each artist's popularity. The system would then distribute the rest of the money on the basis of that popularity, using a cube-root or similar tapering-off function.