JurekB
9th of July 2008 (Wed), 12:25
Has anybody got any experience of this website http://www.nowpublic.com/ ?
I've been approached by someone via my Flickr site to use one of my images to illustrate a story.
The site is basically a 'citizen journalism' thing which in my mind equates to 'we want to use your stuff but not pay you while we make a fat profit'. For that reason alone I would not consider it but they do apparently have a close relationship with The Associated Press so I suppose there is a billion to one chance that they might notice me.
The other thing is it doesn't appear to be a rights grab as I have the impression that they follow the same rules as Flickr regarding copyright. So the big question I suppose is has anybody submitted work to them and is it worth it for the exposure or is it just the equivalent of a worthless byline?
I've been approached by someone via my Flickr site to use one of my images to illustrate a story.
The site is basically a 'citizen journalism' thing which in my mind equates to 'we want to use your stuff but not pay you while we make a fat profit'. For that reason alone I would not consider it but they do apparently have a close relationship with The Associated Press so I suppose there is a billion to one chance that they might notice me.
The other thing is it doesn't appear to be a rights grab as I have the impression that they follow the same rules as Flickr regarding copyright. So the big question I suppose is has anybody submitted work to them and is it worth it for the exposure or is it just the equivalent of a worthless byline?