Patent ID: 8103590

Claim:
A method comprising: presenting, via a community server comprising at least one processor, a free right in a first content file for public use over a publicly accessible network; collecting overall current data usage of the first content file by a plurality of users on the network; calculating, via the community server, a popularity index for the first content file based on the collected overall current usage data of the first content file, said calculating comprises weighing the usage data according to individual designations of each of the plurality of users, the usage data comprising all data statistically related to metadata of the first content file; and based on a comparison of the popularity index for the first content file with a threshold, wherein said comparison comprises determining that the popularity index exceeds the threshold, and wherein said comparison comprises categorically comparing a form of the popularity index and a form of the threshold, offering for sale, via the community server, on the publicly accessible network a pre-designated right in a second content file, wherein the pre-designated right in the second content file is a right in the second content file authorized by an owner to be offered for sale, wherein the owner owns a master right in the first content file and the master right in the second content file, the master right including a right to distribute the free right and a right to distribute the pre-designated right.