A system and method for promoting artistic creation and compensation therefor includes a first step of accepting payment from an advertiser to have an artist perform a message in the voice of the artist within an entertainment production of the artist; a second step of creating an entertainment production by the artist wherein the message is integrated into the entertainment production; a third step of converting the entertainment production to an electronically readable file; a fourth step of enabling consumer download of the electronically readable file using the Internet; and, a fifth step of paying the artist for a consumer download of the electronically readable file.