The Gadgets Page

This is interesting. Scoopt is trying to help you sell your photos to the press using Flickr.

• Sell your photos or pictures and video to the press and media with citizen journalist site Scoopt

You see yourself at the scene of a fire or maybe a famous celebrity walks by you. You snap a photo, upload it to Flickr and tag it with the word “scoopt,” meaning you’re willing to sell it to the press. Cool, huh? Yeah, but they take 50% of the money. Not only that, you can’t publish it anywhere else for three months. This is from their FAQ file:

“When you send Scoopt a photo, you automatically grant us an exclusive worldwide licence to market that photo for a period of three months. During this three-month period, you agree not to publish the photo anywhere else. When the three months are up, the licence becomes non-exclusive. We will still try to sell your photo but now you can also publish it yourself on a photoblog or a picture sharing site — or anywhere else at all.”

If I was reluctant to trust Flickr for so many years, I’m even more reluctant to give exclusive worldwide rights to a brand new company. This might be your ticket to fame, but I think I’ll stick to anonymity.

Via: webitpr | Scoopt invites the Flickr community to ’snap, tag, sell’