Patent ID: 8442912

Claim:
A computerized system for facilitating the creation and promotion of creative works, comprising: a main computer configured to provide information about specific undeveloped creative works seeking financial sponsorship to remote user-interactive devices for display, said undeveloped creative works including motion picture works, wherein said information concerning the undeveloped creative works includes a plot description of at least one of the undeveloped motion picture works; receive and process requests for purchases of benefits relating to a specific undeveloped creative work, said requests received in electronic messages transmitted over a wide area electronic network; and a non-transitory storage medium associated with said main computer configured to store patron information received from a remote user and associate the patron information with the specific undeveloped creative work selected by the user; wherein said main computer is configured to automatically aggregate monetary amounts in a work-specific controlled escrow account, the work-specific controlled escrow account selected from among one or more work-specific controlled escrow accounts maintained on said storage medium, each work-specific controlled escrow account being identified with a different specific undeveloped creative work, for use in development of the specific undeveloped creative work, and to release all or a portion of the aggregated monies when a predefined target threshold amount is attained to facilitate completion of the specific undeveloped creative work, whereby records stored on said storage medium maintain a correlation between each work-specific controlled escrow account, the specific undeveloped creative work associated with the work-specific controlled escrow account, and the patron information associated with each specific undeveloped creative work; to provide viewing access for the artist associated with developing the undeveloped creative work to the monetary amount in the work-specific controlled escrow account through an electronic connection from an administrative or remote computer to the main computer; and to facilitate electronic notification of patrons associated with the specific undeveloped creative work concerning availability of their purchased benefits, or upon the condition that the predefined target threshold amount is not attained, through messages transmitted over said wide area electronic network.