By: fitzroyalty

fitzroyalty — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:15:06 +0000

They must be very desperate to go to such desperate measures to create content at no cost. The commercial media suits are on their knees, and it's time to kick them in the face. News Ltd is rumoured to be planning a massive increase in the use of unpaid journalists for its proposed new site with the working title 'The Punch. They already have the most regressive and insulting terms and conditions for user generated content submissions on their local newspaper websites. They specifically aim to strip contributors of their moral rights as well as their intellectual property rights and copyright. The ABC is just as bad in that it fails to guarantee attribution of user submitted content. I posed a simple question more than a year ago for all media businesses moving towards the use of user generated content and social media: why should I (as a blogger or citizen journalist) help you build your media empire? I've not heard a single coherent answer. I think this is because there isn't one...

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