A method of making intellectual property goods available by determining
and charging prices that reflect the value that consumers assign to an
increased variety and quality of those goods available for their use. For
this purpose, consumers are bundled into groups. Through a communications
network members of the groups vote in samples on the purchase of
personal, nontransferable usage rights of as many intellectual property
goods as possible by stating their willingness to pay for desired
outcomes. A pivotal tax levied on pivotal voters ensures truthful demand
revelation. All nonvoting members of the group then pay for the use
rights a price resembling the voting sample's revealed willingness to pay
or, in case of an approval of the purchase of usage rights, the price the
voting sample voted on.