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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: cathyslife on December 23, 2010, 08:25
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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 (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. ;)
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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.
[url]http://www.goupstate.com/article/20101223/articles/12231027[/url] ([url]http://www.goupstate.com/article/20101223/articles/12231027[/url])
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. ;)
Local papers in Scotland have for years sold prints of the photos they use. I haven't looked online to see if they do this nowadays.
Some papers do very well by free crowdsourcing, and any I've checked out are rights grabs, so this could be a lucrative sideline for them.
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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.
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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.
Yes, I think it's a good idea. The newspapers are going broke, it makes sense that they would want to make up revenue somehow.
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They do the same thing here with our paper.
Edit: Here is the link to my News photos to buy site. I remember a few months ago they had it linked to a Smugmug Page.
http://tricities.mycapture.com/mycapture/index.asp (http://tricities.mycapture.com/mycapture/index.asp)
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^^ +1
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I don't see any problem with this. It's all up front and simply another service offered by the paper.
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As far as I know this has always happened. Back in 1974 I freelanced for my local newspaper the Crawley Advertiser and we sold prints to the public. It was basically just memento prints for those in the photo or their friends and relatives. My dad bought one of his prize cauliflower and the cup he got for it! It's just done on the web these days rather than phoning the "print sales" department. OK nostalgia trip over...Regards, David. Oh, and I just got back from my parents and that photo is still being proudly displayed!