F.A.Q.

What is DAO?

DAO is an acronym for Decentralized Autonomous Organization.

It builds upon innovations in the smart contract sector of blockchain development. This innovation allows for an organization to form organically around a shared purpose while trust in that organization is managed by a collection of digital wallets.

What’s the point of your DAO?

Mission: Replace web 2.0 with something better.

Solve for “The Social Dilemma” problem.

How?

By DAO!

Specifically, a twenty two step road-map which you can find here.

Direct Action does not mean any type of political organization, as the word can commonly be used, but as direct action funding as opposed to non-profit fundraising or investment.

The purpose of DAO of BIG MOTHER is to pilot a new variation of decentralization that functions and combines as a “Direct Action Organization” and then funds that set of executable actions so as to avoid the Wall Street/Silicon Valley milestone measurements for funding (among other bureaucracy.

Direct Action funding is compared against traditional non-profit or crowdfunding. Probably the best example of a type of direct action fund currently would be Ukraine DAO, putting the money directly in the hands, or wallets, of those that need it for a specific purpose, quickly moving past bureaucracy or even authority where necessary.

This variation of DAO’s central feature is not via selling governance tokens or voting, but rather leaning on “adhocracy” to affect a change at scale quickly, via a purpose or mission. Governance is not for sale in our DAO, and all DAO members can participate.

We suggest that this form of DAO that is a direct action organization can fund and complete a “mission” as defined by the DAO with lightning speed, far quicker than any singular company, organization, or even government institution could accomplish.

We have designed our DAO in such a way so as to remove previous distribution inefficiencies in DAO structures, such as legal compliance and governance and all the steps in between “purpose” and “execution” as potentially managed by a smart contract. The foundation of all of these solutions to the web 2.0 problem is the financing and funding of start-up companies who need to rely on Wall Street funding and metrics, which then locks them into the “big data” problem. If Wall Street was to fund any of these innovations, then it is likely these innovations will have to adjust to different financial realities that do not reflect on the purpose of the technology.

What is your DAO innovating?

Our DAO is introducing six innovations to begin, three of which have been in development for quite some time.

• We are introducing DAO GOV, a methodology for non-dual consensus building, an application of Game Theory and Psychology to a computer interface design. Highly innovative, this algorithm only allows for one mutually resolving outcome to occur between ideological divides, without voting or a third party. We will pilot this as a new form for DAO governance.
• We are introducing an extension of DAO GOV which applies a ternary voting process to multisig wallets as a protocol and this will be available as a DAO tool for web3.
• We are introducing “CopyCake!™”, which allows for a legally compliant asset that DAO structures can use to “bootstrap” while allowing NFTs and more importantly “art” to relay the theme of DAO purpose into profit share for community funding. A new type of compliant asset and fund.
• We are introducing a piloted and tested decentralized direct to publisher content broadcast network, a proprietary server, and a new way to distribute content on the world wide web independent of big tech’s servers.
• We are introducing the first narrative story that unfolds chapters through NFTs. While we haven’t launched our narrative NFT yet, you can get a sneak peek of the site while its under construction here.
• We are introducing a new way to monetize the web through “attention currency”, allowing the value of five seconds of attention to be stored and traded as an asset that can replace the “data economy” of big tech. No blockchain required. Not a cryptocurrency. Preview coming soon.

What does “Big Mother” mean?

The meaning of our brand emerged from a playful twist on language. Our entire project is seeking to replace the web 2.0 “Social Dilemma” with something better. What can we do about Big Brother watching us? We need a Big Mother watching out for us!

A Big Mother seemed a lot funnier, even more human, than the “Big Brother” alternative we have today. That made us chuckle. Now it’s our brand.

What if I hate NFTs and think they are stupid scams?

Perfect!

You are exactly the type of individual we want to reach out to.

We believe that the underlying technology of smart contracts which enable NFTs and web3 to emerge is a profound opportunity, especially for artists.

However, we see there is so much misinformation about NFTs, copyright and smart contracts that exists and the genuine benefit is lost or unclear.

So if you are skeptical, we want you to help “proof” our designs. If web3 developers are going to claim to “clean up web 2.0” then web3 also has to clean up its own environment first, and that is precisely what our DAO is providing to start.

Bring your skepticisms here, and let us demonstrate how compliance, good intentions, smart contracts and decentralized structures can generate constructive change and distributive wealth far better than any other potential system.

What do you say to people who say that NFTs are a scam and are not really copyright at all?

We say that they are correct in many if not most cases!

NFTs, as commonly sold and distributed, are not the same as full copyright or creator value at all, and this is why we innovated CopyCake!™, so that now they can be.

All NFTs, without CopyCake!™, are really just “copy-lemons”, not really giving you the copyright you expected.

Are you an NFT Studio?

Our DAO is a bootstrap fund and a web3 innovations lab and a creative and broadcast studio.

We use NFTs as distribution but we have many many innovations outside of NFT and the blockchain. NFTs are the least interesting thing we innovate.

While NFT is how we distribute, calling us an NFT company is like calling Tesla Motors a tire company.

Are you a fund?

Yes, in addition to being a studio, our DAO is a fund, just like there exists Angel Funds, VC funds, and there exists “endowments”, large funds that are dedicated to specific purposes or missions.

The DAO of Big Mother combines all the “fun” of crowdfunding, all the financial benefit of a high performing asset, all the purpose of a dedicated endowment, into an entirely new type of fund that previously before web3 was simply not possible.

What do you mean you are a “broadcast” network?

Immediately, our DAO acquires an innovative, decentralized mobile content management and distribution platform. This platform, already piloted and tested Phase 1 MVP, is both back-end distributive and front end interactive; meaning this is a very unique proprietary server, called “flash-blog”, that introduces a new distribution pathway for how content is served on the world wide web, along with a front end user interactive object, called a “SNIP” content page.

A SNIP is a smart native inserted page. It’s just a type of content page that allows for blogs, social videos, or images to become pages which exist on a unique type of “channel” that only shows one content page for a minimum of five seconds or so, anywhere.

This technology and platform is entirely unique to our DAO, and our DAO will pilot this unique mobile content management system that can integrate with any mobile website or mobile app, and will distribute any content web page we create (HTML5) directly to their audiences for full and complete “audience reach” for websites and apps.

What’s more, this SNIP page can reach an audience via “surgical contextual targeting” without requiring any form of data tracking or programmatic targeting, a GDPR compliant digital publishing technology.

What happens if I will just never understand what the hell that means?

That’s okay! It basically means our DAO can become “famous” with the press of a few buttons and a few transactions. It means our DAO can reach large audiences, just like CNN, FOX, ABC, NBC, or CBS, to name a few, within the scope of a few months of our DAO forming.

It means our DAO has incredible audience reach; an ability to distribute messages and content which we create or endorse, and that we have exclusive platform that provides this type of “audience” reach capability.

Our DAO has many innovations we are rolling out over the next few months, and it will all be easy to understand once you see these things with your own eyes, working on the internet somewhere. While web3 ushered in a new wave of innovation for many creators, we just got lucky as we were already developing decentralized solutions and technologies for ten years, and the internet just caught up to us, putting us in an incredibly fortunate situation as we found ourselves a few years ahead of current innovations in web3 governance and defi. Collectively, we’ve spent over $1M in research and development since 2011, and have much progress to already show.

What is BAE Economics?

BAE Economics is a economic design principle that we are piloting through our NFT distribution and bootstrap fund; an example of how “win-win” economics can emerge from web3 design.

Why is this for “profit, purpose, and fund” ?

Imagine around 80 years ago, 1939; the character Batman as created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, which first appeared in the comic book, #27 of “The Detective”, sold for ten cents each.

Follow so far? Eighty years or so ago you paid a dime for a comic book called “The Detective” which featured “The Bat-Man.”

Now imagine when you bought the comic book, it was also something like our NFT distribution and imagine it had something like CopyCake!™, as our DAO studio offers.

Now imagine back then; if you also owned some of the actual copyright to Batman because you were a reader of the comic-book “The Bat-Man” for ten cents, along with both Bob and Bill, who shared the copyright ownership value with the first owners of the available printed issues of “The Detective ” issue #27.

How much do you think that copyright was worth over time until now?

Billions of dollars? Of course!

Consider now your share of a copyright worth billions and billions over a hundred years originated with a value of a dime in USD currency back 1922. That’s lotsa profit, obviously.

But imagine that this unique co-ownership of this unique copyright also gave you more than just profit, and imagine that all the profit that the copyright has given you is just “icing on the cake” in comparison to all the other immeasurable value it had on your own personal life.

Imagine then that with this co-ownership in the copyright of “The Bat-Man” enabled you to attend all Comic-con conventions during this time, backstage passes all. In addition to profiting, you developed an entire lifestyle around the work you cherished, one singular comic book which you paid a dime for for back in 1939, which not only made you money, it somehow also raised money for a purpose that was infectious, popular, and continually scaling while also providing a lifestyle and security to support both you and your family.

While the original artists nor original fans of “The Bat-Man” unfortunately did not partake in that copyright, that copyright has made millions to billions of dollars for many corporations over time.

The DAO as a studio will apply this new form of web3 distribution, the NFT, and all future works emerging from the DAO of BIG MOTHER will also carry this novel distributive feature, co-ownership with the community who loves the art, loves the purpose and mission, and becomes an essential component of our studio.

What if I am too cool for comics?

Perhaps comic books are not “cool” enough of a metaphor, so instead think of music.

Imagine owning some of the music copyright right publishing from Duke Ellington, or David Bowie, or Prince’s first few albums?

Imagine owning some of the copyright of the film “Pulp Fiction” simply when you purchased the movie ticket to view the film.

Not only would you have made a large profit, the more exciting and the more interesting part is you become part of a bigger cultural picture when you play with “copyright” as opposed to “stock”, you are a part of the actual history and the reward.

The appeal is obvious, what is more “fun” to make money from?

Great works of art and purpose or oil and gas, futures, and pork rinds?

Which is more fun conversation over dinner?

Which would make a more exciting “gift” for a holiday?

Which produces the most conversations?

Which solves the most problems in the world?

Corporations may rise and fall, but “copyright” is eternal.

What if I only listen to techno?

It doesn’t matter. Everyone has works of art they cherish. No matter what turns you on culturally, there is copyright for it, naturally.

We cherish copyright, not for the profit it brings, but for the purpose it gives everyday life. The profit is just icing on the “cake”. Specifically, CopyCake!™.

Owning the legal and formal copyright has this sort of natural value that our fund makes available to the public to own, for the first time in such a manner.

Anyone can own stock in Disney, or Marvel, or Capitol Records, but only a very very very few own the actual real value, the copyright.

Copyright ownership is creator level value, we propose more valuable than equity, stock, or currency.

So we are a new studio that is a collection of artists and designers and we sell the actual co-ownership copyright of the performance we are showcasing.

While we are starting with something simple, the way we bundle copyright with smart contracts can be applied to anything, music, film, TV, books, any creative medium.

So how does this work as a “direct action bootstrap”?

Sure, this is easy. Let’s put together two scenarios.

Let’s use Marvel/Disney’s “Iron Man” films as an example of copyright value, with the total brand grossing $2B worldwide, and let’s use “Elon Musk” Mars program as the “purpose” of the Iron Man films, meaning that ALL of the Revenue from ticket sales of Iron Man went to fund a rocket program that sends a dozen people to Mars in real life.

And by revenue, I mean 100% of all revenue from the ticket sales.

In this example, if Disney, Marvel, and Elon Musk had the same DAO we do, Disney would make films whose popularity in ticket sales funds the development of an actual space program, and the film would cost nothing to produce, and all $2B in revenue that it generated went to the direct action purpose of the DAO.

Consider; what if something culturally valuable, like a global hit movie, was united with a specific purpose and focus, like ending world hunger, for example?

Imagine further, what if you could participate in a large direct action purpose DAO that would directly solve a local problem, like hunger, or a broader vision by partnering with innovators in food production and selling tickets to a huge Hollywood Marvel film?

Imagine that everyone who bought a ticket to the movie also somehow owned a percentage of the total copyright output, and made profit by solving a critical problem that funded its own solution?

This is what our new type of fund creates, it clearly is both for “fun and profit” because we are using something that has cultural value, sentiment, and bundling that sentiment with something that can be measured, with “purpose and profit”, two of the strongest motivational forces in society.

So what’s the purpose of this DAO, sending rich guys into space?

The purpose of our DAO is to fund, design, and re-create Web 2.0 into Web 3.0 on a broad scale, making the “data” economy obsolete. We want to make things like troll farms, online misinformation, and data tracking a thing of the past. We can initiate this on a small scale within eighteen months. This is accomplished through various partners in our DAO. Some commercial start-ups, some nonprofit.

Either way, we fund.

We fund based on purpose, not profit.

Why is CopyCake!™ so important?

CopyCake is important because it is fundamental to how our DAO as a creative studio bootstraps growth in our network of individuals, start-ups, organizations and nonprofits around a mission. As a collection of artists and designers, members of our DAO create copyright in any potential form of art and media. CopyCake allows a community therefore to build a shared ownership model around creative works that become celebrated within a community, but also a new type of hyper-flexible funding.

How does CopyCake!™ do that?

CopyCake does this by combining legal and formal copyright and bundling it with many different types of contracts, as registered to the US Copyright Office as well as offered on SEC regulated marketplaces. What makes this possible is using the novelty of an NFT for distribution, combining the NFT address with the copyright registration form. The US Copyright Registration form will have the address of the NFT for ownership and 66% of the formal copyright value ownership is legally in the hands of anyone who owns a stake of CopyCake in their digital wallets by acquiring one of our NFTs.

What if you could own copyright to something that not only gave you dividends over time, but also generated revenue for projects and causes that you really believe in?

How is that possible?

If you promise to sell the NFT the second you acquire it, we promise you that you can keep it.

Once you sell the NFT, you get it back in the form of CopyCake, which means that you keep the NFT and the blockchain address it exists on is registered with the US Copyright Office, and we assign 66% co-ownership value of the copyright to whatever wallet holds the NFT.

How is it possible for me to keep something after I sell it?

This is only possible because we are introducing a narrative structure into the distribution of NFT. In a BAE Economy, you are a distributor of a narrative performance that has nine scenes in total.

When you pay the entrance fee, you obtain a unique variation of the scene, only 1 of 120; and the following scene only unlocks if you sell it.

If you sell it, you can then own the scene you sold with CopyCake assigned to it.

So it’s my responsibility to sell the NFT???

You only have to exhibit the NFT, which occurs naturally when you have it in your digital wallet. The only effort you are required to put into it is simply by choosing a contract, we do the rest of the work. We are simultaneously launching a nine-part mini-series podcast, continually driving more and more organic awareness to our mission, which includes partnerships with actual start up companies and non-profits in perpetuity, so our DAO is here to stay long term. All you have to do is press a button, and leave the rest up to the flow of our natural BAE economic system.

Is one share of CopyCake the same as an NFT?

The first scene in Act 1 in our performance “Why Not World Game” entrance fee is $120.00, which returns one full share of CopyCake!™. The second scene in Act 1 is worth three shares of CopyCake, and third scene is worth 27 shares of CopyCake.

All shares of CopyCake are NFTs as created by our DAO but as distributed by our community.

How do I join? Is that simple to do?

Anyone can join our DAO as an Exhibitor. DAO “partners” are by invitation only while we are forming.

How do I become an Exhibitor?

By paying the entrance fee into the Act or Scene that is available in our performance when it opens.

When does the Exhibitors Programme open?

September 2022

What qualifies anyone to become a DAO partner?

Any researcher, technologist, start-up or nonprofit that offers a study, design, technology, product or service aligns with our mission is a target to join our DAO.

Is this a multi level marketing ploy? Are members or partners required to sell nfts?

No, absolutely not! There is no requirement to either buy or sell our NFTs by DAO partners. However, we do acknowledge that we are marketing awareness towards our DAO and purpose in the form of something that looks like crowdfunding, but it isn’t. NFTs are how we distribute our performance which we bootstrap towards our purpose. The funds raised by the DAO go to partners, some of whom have “equity” and these companies bring further value back to the copyright of the DAO.

So what is the benefit to me by becoming an Exhibitor?

Our economic system gives all the benefits of all types of crowdfunding, fundraising and investments, wrapped up into one. Short term benefits of playing our economy is “Quickie Bank” which gives double or more profits, just to start. The long term benefits of CopyCake are the continual accrued value of owning actual and real copyright that is bundled with smart contracts and digital wallets.

It benefits everyone the same, its for fun and profit. It’s a high velocity game, where the win win is the most probable outcome for all participating.

If you apply the dominant strategy in the economy (a win-win) you gain short term profit “Quickie Bank” from Exhibiting our performance narrative, and long term dividend type relationship as a co-owner of the formal and legal copyright the community is creating.

What’s more you become an essential role in the DAO “bootstrapping” various partners who all return value back to our DAO in the form of scale and reach and equity value through SEC approved marketplaces, such as RegA+.

I don’t understand. What do you mean, play the “BAE Economics”, do you want me to buy the NFT, or not?

No, we don’t want you to buy the NFT, unless you want to of course.

We just want you to sell it.

That’s the point in the BAE Economy, the transaction is more valuable than what is being transacted.

In a BAE Economy, everything is designed to incentivize the transaction, continually making the transaction more and more appealing.

Wut? What if no one buys it ?

In a BAE Economy, the sale never closes, so as long as you choose a resale strategy, the most likely outcome is it will eventually sell because all transactions are incentivized and we are talking about actual copyright. You are given many options to choices you can make to incentivize the transaction. The transaction is the distribution of our narrative performance.

What if I don’t want to sell it?

In a BAE Economy, the only way to keep the NFT is by selling it.  It is counterintuitive and even paradoxical at first, because in NTFs and cryptocurrencies, most if not all financial assets (especially art), we are told to “HODL” (hold on for dear life) for value, as the scarcity of what we are holding will drive the price up over time. 

A BAE Economy measures “abundancy” instead of scarcity, and value is created by velocity in the system.

Consider; there are one thousand and eighty unique works of art which are distributed as NFTs. Each one is unique, and may hold a lot of value, both personal to the holder as well as financial through ownership of the copyright itself. The transaction itself is what is most abundant in the system of individual and rare works of art, and what is the most necessary, the transaction is the distribution pathway of the whole system. This is how a BAE economy works on a small scale.

So in a BAE Economy, we reward the transaction itself by rewarding the NFT holder with CopyCake!™, which is co-ownership in our DAO.

So I can both sell the NFT, and keep the NFT?

Correct, in a BAE Economy, you can keep what you sell, and continue to take value from it over time.

Can I sell the NFT after ™CopyCake! has been awarded?

• Yes, as it now represents one or more shares of CopyCake!™ ownership which is transferable to anyone who has the NFT in their wallet.

So I can sell it twice?

Technically, yes, you can sell it twice, however when you sell it the second time, you are selling it outside of our system, and that means you relinquish your co-ownership in CopyCake to someone else.

So as long as I hold my ™CopyCake! I am a member of the DAO?

• Yes, you will always be the sole exhibitor for that performance scene, as well as 66% co-owner of the legal and formal copyright for the scene in your wallet.
• as you hold 1 out of only 120 ownership roles available in the copyright the DAO is generating and creating for that chapter.

So when we trade your NFTs, scene by scene, that’s how the story tells itself across the NFTs?

• Exactly. The performance narrative unfolds when someone makes a bid to you for your NFT you hold right now.