Content Inc With Joe Pulizzi

Well, we didn’t win the US Constitution…but this is going to be big. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, here are the details. As you know from listening to this podcast, I’ve been covering quite a bit about DAOs and digital property rights for content creators. Most of the DAO (decentralized autonomous organizations) examples I’ve been sharing are for media companies and crypto projects. Well, here’s one that really got me thinking. Last week, a group of investors and crypto enthusiasts launched ConstitutionDAO. Their goal? To buy the actual US constitution. Auction house Sotheby’s auctioned it off last week. The estimated price was to go between $15 and $20 million dollars. ConstitutionDAO’s goal was to purchase this version. They say: “We’re buying the US Constitution. For the first time in thirty-three years, one of thirteen surviving copies of the Official Edition from the Constitutional Convention will be publicly auctioned by Sotheby's. It is the only copy that is still owned by private co