I saw this come up in my headlines of my home page, yahoo. It's an article that talks about how it might snow here.

http://www.goupstate.com/article/20101223/articles/12231027

Right underneath the photo, are the words "Buy Photo". I'm thinking, what?, this was likely just a photo taken by the staff photographer. Click on it...sure enough, it does look like it was taken by a staff photographer and they are selling the photos as prints or on coffee mugs, etc. Wonder who gets the money from the sales? Maybe both the photog and the newspaper? Anyone heard of this before, or is this something new, thanks to the internet.

Funny thing is, I looked for that photo by search Gerry Pate and couldn't find it. They must use istock's search engine.  

  This is a service called Fotobroker. My local paper uses it too. It is marketed by a company that does all the back end work and enables local newspapers to offer prints to the public. It's intended to create new revenue sources for the paper, not as another stock service. The license is personal non-commercial only. I think the target audience is someone who had their picture in the paper and wanted to get a reprint. It's actually a pretty good market for the paper, but no competition to us.