Not yet open to creators
Publish work people actually keep.
Freehold Market is for musicians, authors, filmmakers, developers, educators and maintainers who want to sell or share downloadable work — and keep a direct relationship with the people who support it, instead of renting that relationship from a platform.
You choose how it's paid for.
One catalogue, several models. A free release with a tip jar sits beside a fixed-price album and a pay-what-you-want bundle, and none of them require pushing your audience into a subscription to reach you.
- Free with optional support Give the work away and let people pay if they want to. The download never sits behind the payment.
- Fixed price A straightforward purchase. The buyer gets the files and a durable record of what they bought.
- Pay what you want Set a minimum or don't. Buyers who want to pay more are allowed to, which is more common than storefronts assume.
- Tips and bundles One-time tips on any listing, and bundles that group works across editions or collaborators.
- Supporter pricing Different pricing for people already supporting you, without splitting your catalogue across two platforms.
- Community-funded releases Planned Works funded collectively before release. Designed for, but not built yet.
- Recurring support Planned Ongoing support for a creator rather than a single work — later, and never as a condition of access to something already bought.
What we're committing to.
These are product principles, not marketing lines — they constrain what the platform is allowed to become.
- Deliver your work DRM-free, in real formats, as downloadable files
- State the licence terms on every listing, in plain language
- Issue serials, receipts and checksums so ownership is provable
- Let you keep a direct relationship with your supporters
- Use provenance records to protect you from unauthorised redistribution
- Wrap your files in DRM or a proprietary player
- Make your audience subscribe to reach work they already bought
- Treat a buyer backing up their own files as an infringement
- Hide what a listing actually grants behind a wall of terms
- Build ownership on a blockchain or an NFT
What we can't tell you yet.
Fees, revenue split, payout timing and the creator agreement itself are still being worked through, and they need legal and accounting review before they're published. We'd rather say nothing than quote you a number that changes before you can act on it. When those terms are settled they'll be published in full, before anyone is asked to sign anything.
If you make something people can download.
- Musicians
- Authors
- Filmmakers
- Game developers
- Software developers
- Open-source maintainers
- Educators
- Designers
- Artists
- Podcasters
- Audiobook narrators
- Tabletop RPG creators
- Zine makers
- Sample and asset creators
- Public-domain curators
Tell us what you'd publish.
Creator accounts aren't open yet and there's no date to give you. But the people who get in touch now are the ones whose work shapes what gets built first — so if you have a catalogue you'd want to sell this way, tell us what it is and what you'd need from us.