One of the greatly positive effects of the digital world is that many more people engage in creative and expressive activities and become able and willing to develop new capabilities to this effect. This positive development confronts us with great economic and social challenges. They have been long hidden by the focus of the cultural industry of the past on eradicating file sharing between individuals. It is time to take the real challenges in our hands and revisit the contribution of various schemes to the sustainability and development of digital culture. The talk will discuss in particular voluntary and statutory resource pooling schemes