@Joe (aka Joe Neale), stood up for his rights with Newscorp. This may be a tipping point for media and amateur rightsholders, alike.
When it
becomes VERY efficient for Newscorp to get photos from content published on the
Internet when there's a "frictionless" to pay for the right (i.e.,
standard rate card and one-click transaction).
Is that in the best interest of the amateur publisher? Let's see, if all 20,000 followers click thru to his blog (very doubtful) and a $12.00 cpm @jeffjarvis, it would take 25 advertisers to generate $300 in revenue.
This concept is not so blue sky. The AP's new digital wrapper and syndication solution could become a 2-way system. And Reuters @cahearn has offered to offer an alterative to the AP's solution for monetizing content syndication, maybe they would see the relevance of a two-way barter system of cash and/or credits. See my thought starter: http://bit.ly/FqrZP
