Spy Media, a new way for citizen journalists to gain revenue?

Posted Thursday, October 6, 2005 at 10:57am in Blogging, Media  | 

The BBC reports of a new global website, Spy Media, which lets citizen journalists/photographers upload images and sell them at a fixed price. It says that the increasing use of RSS is letting large media corporations take images from blogs and other citizen journalism platforms without paying any money for them.

It claims that letting citizens sell their images could be a huge revenue stream, particularly in local news as “no one is covering local news no more.”

I’m not sure if this is a good thing or not. On the one hand, it could indeed be a potential revenue stream for amateur journalists, but on the other, does this mean that every photograph/image that someone uses, be it on their blog or anywhere else, will be copyrighted?

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