As I recall, some time ago (about 12 months maybe?) the website did a
bit of a trial reducing the number of image libraries they sourced their
pictures from - with the aim of seeing if they could reduce the number
that were used and paid for. They also tried sourcing images from
freephoto.com - if you hunt really hard you'll find the odd image
credited that way.
I'm sure it was covered in Pete Clifton's "From the Editors's Desktop"
(the forerunner for the BBC News Editors Blog) however I can't find it
for the life of me.
I've used a couple of Creative Commons photos from flickr on my own
website (most noticably in www.planetbods.org/theshed/randomwritings/
which mixes photos from flickr with some of my own). Part of the
problem with that approach is that quite often, I just can't find
anything that's right AND which is Creative Commons. I was looking
yesterday for something that would work for something relating to the
Ten Commandments. Found some great ones - but which were All Rights
Reserved. Before you know it, you end up with some seriously dodgy
photos like these:
http://headlesszombiebunny.blogspot.com/
Anyway, more importantly I suspect the reason why Flickr isn't used as a
source is that it currently isn't in the photo editors workflow. Yet :)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Deutsch
Sent: 21 September 2007 15:15
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [backstage] the economics of BBC content
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
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