Comments on: BBC will pay you for photos http://mathewingram.com/media/2006/11/17/bbc-will-pay-you-for-photos/ ...watching the intersection of the Web and media Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:26:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Have cellphone-camera, will report » Mathew Ingram: mathewingram.com/work http://mathewingram.com/media/2006/11/17/bbc-will-pay-you-for-photos/#comment-51 Have cellphone-camera, will report » Mathew Ingram: mathewingram.com/work Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:32:31 +0000 http://mathewingram.com/media/?p=94#comment-51 [...] The issue of payment continues to be one of the major sticking points in these efforts, which Seth Finkelstein likes to call “digital sharecropping.” The BBC has said that it will pay those who submit photos or videos, but only if they are significant in some way — and what would qualify as significant remains to be defined (would video of Michael Richards having a racist meltdown qualify?). Reuters plans to pay if photos are distributed to media outlets, but not if they just appear on Yahoo: Users will not be paid for images displayed on the Yahoo and Reuters sites. But people whose photos or videos are selected for distribution to Reuters clients will receive a payment. Mr. Ahearn said the company had not yet figured out how to structure those payments. [...] […] The issue of payment continues to be one of the major sticking points in these efforts, which Seth Finkelstein likes to call “digital sharecropping.” The BBC has said that it will pay those who submit photos or videos, but only if they are significant in some way — and what would qualify as significant remains to be defined (would video of Michael Richards having a racist meltdown qualify?). Reuters plans to pay if photos are distributed to media outlets, but not if they just appear on Yahoo: Users will not be paid for images displayed on the Yahoo and Reuters sites. But people whose photos or videos are selected for distribution to Reuters clients will receive a payment. Mr. Ahearn said the company had not yet figured out how to structure those payments. […]

]]> By: mathewingram.com/media » Have cellphone-camera, will report http://mathewingram.com/media/2006/11/17/bbc-will-pay-you-for-photos/#comment-49 mathewingram.com/media » Have cellphone-camera, will report Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:23:28 +0000 http://mathewingram.com/media/?p=94#comment-49 [...] The issue of payment continues to be one of the major sticking points in these efforts, which Seth Finkelstein likes to call “digital sharecropping.” The BBC has said that it will pay those who submit photos or videos, but only if they are significant in some way — and what would qualify as significant remains to be defined (would video of Michael Richards having a racist meltdown qualify?). Reuters plans to pay if photos are distributed to media outlets, but not if they just appear on Yahoo: Users will not be paid for images displayed on the Yahoo and Reuters sites. But people whose photos or videos are selected for distribution to Reuters clients will receive a payment. Mr. Ahearn said the company had not yet figured out how to structure those payments. [...] […] The issue of payment continues to be one of the major sticking points in these efforts, which Seth Finkelstein likes to call “digital sharecropping.” The BBC has said that it will pay those who submit photos or videos, but only if they are significant in some way — and what would qualify as significant remains to be defined (would video of Michael Richards having a racist meltdown qualify?). Reuters plans to pay if photos are distributed to media outlets, but not if they just appear on Yahoo: Users will not be paid for images displayed on the Yahoo and Reuters sites. But people whose photos or videos are selected for distribution to Reuters clients will receive a payment. Mr. Ahearn said the company had not yet figured out how to structure those payments. […]

]]> By: Mathew http://mathewingram.com/media/2006/11/17/bbc-will-pay-you-for-photos/#comment-24 Mathew Fri, 17 Nov 2006 23:00:34 +0000 http://mathewingram.com/media/?p=94#comment-24 Thanks for the comment, Nick. But didn't the Guardian story say exactly that? Or do you mean the previous story that quoted Pete Clifton as saying the BBC wouldn't pay? In any case, I appreciate you stopping by -- and the Flickr idea is indeed a good one. Thanks for the comment, Nick. But didn’t the Guardian story say exactly that? Or do you mean the previous story that quoted Pete Clifton as saying the BBC wouldn’t pay? In any case, I appreciate you stopping by — and the Flickr idea is indeed a good one.

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]]> By: Nick Reynolds http://mathewingram.com/media/2006/11/17/bbc-will-pay-you-for-photos/#comment-22 Nick Reynolds Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:27:18 +0000 http://mathewingram.com/media/?p=94#comment-22 This story in the Guardian is misleading. We've never said we will absolutely never pay for pictures, just that such payments will be exceptional. And we are already experimenting with using flickr as a way of gathering and filtering photos. For example: http://www.flickr.com/groups/radio1bigweekend/ (I work for the BBC) This story in the Guardian is misleading. We’ve never said we will absolutely never pay for pictures, just that such payments will be exceptional.

And we are already experimenting with using flickr as a way of gathering and filtering photos. For example:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/radio1bigweekend/

(I work for the BBC)

]]> By: Rob Hyndman http://mathewingram.com/media/2006/11/17/bbc-will-pay-you-for-photos/#comment-21 Rob Hyndman Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:12:26 +0000 http://mathewingram.com/media/?p=94#comment-21 If they were smart they'd set up a pool on Flickr for submissions and let the community filter out the great ones. :) If they were smart they’d set up a pool on Flickr for submissions and let the community filter out the great ones. :)

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