Oddly enough, someone sent me the following link the other day, wondering if it was the BBC's cost-cutting measures going a little too far by asking the public to send in royalty-free images... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6993603.stm
(Is this about to open a massive can of UGC worms?) - martin On 9/21/07, James Ockenden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello > This has bothered me for some time but the picture and caption on this > page were the final straw.... > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7005206.stm > > How much should the BBC be paying for that page, aside from the > journalism and broadcast? It really shouldn't need to pay for such a > pointless picture, there must be thousands of beautiful lightbulb > pictures available for free (although the beeb was accused of nicking > them off Flickr a whiles back, perhaps it's all stricter now...) > > But with some clever feeds, the pictures could be free, just as > pretty, just as relevant, and the corporation saved enough to buy a > researcher to oomph up the story..... > > cheers! > James in HK > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial > list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >
