> The term CultureBanked refers to full or partial public, or in some cases, shared ownership of intellectual property assets.
CultureBanked is a research-and-prototyping project started by Liam Murphy that explores how creative work can become “banked” as a shared asset, so communities (and sometimes the public) hold full or partial ownership of Intellectual Property rather than leaving it entirely in private hands - culturebanked.org 
# What “CultureBanked” means
On the CultureBanked site, the term “CultureBanked” is used to mean full or partial public ownership, or shared ownership, of intellectual property assets, with the intent of treating cultural production as a commons-like resource rather than a purely private one - culturebanked.org
# Core idea
CultureBanked sits in the wider conversation about Cultural Commons and Digital Commons: how communities might steward cultural value over time, and how “permission”, rights, and reuse could be made more flexible, legible, and pro-social than today’s default IP regimes - linkedin.com
# Community Rights Management
CultureBanked frames its work as “Community Rights Management”, implying a shift from rights-management as a purely industry tool to rights-management as a civic capacity: communities being able to manage, share, and benefit from cultural assets they help create or sustain - medium.com
# Tools and prototypes
CultureBanked describes collaborating with tech partners to build online tools for artists, and it publishes a demo “Artist Flow” built on Kendra (with a public import and database you can browse and edit in-demo) - culturebanked.org
# Creative rights as tax
One strand of the project argues that as automation grows, states risk losing income-tax revenue, and proposes exploring tax mechanisms linked to ownership rights and cultural/public content, positioning CultureBanked as part of a bigger civic-finance conversation rather than only an arts-policy conversation - culturebanked.org
# Relationship to cultural commoning discourse
Outside the CultureBanked website, Murphy’s writing appears in the “Our Cultural Commons” series (curated by Voluntary Arts / Creative Lives), placing CultureBanked within UK-and-Ireland cultural commoning discussions from the late 2010s - creative-lives.org
# Writing and longer essays
Liam has published multiple essays under the CultureBanked banner (including reflections on IP frameworks and “culturebanking” as a strategy for building commons capital), giving more philosophical and political context than the project’s short “About” page - medium.com
# Project presence and channels
CultureBanked maintains a presence on social platforms (including a Facebook page describing the project in terms of shared wealth from creative assets and public-interest funding aims), suggesting it has been run both as an idea-platform and as an outward-facing community narrative over time - facebook.com
# Notes for Hitchhikers-style builders
CultureBanked is interesting for any project that wants to treat creative output as a stewarded commons without collapsing into “everything is free” or “everything is locked”. It pushes toward a middle space where Licensing and Governance co-evolve with tools, and where cultural assets can be treated as long-lived civic infrastructure rather than disposable content - culturebanked.org