Royalty-free Photos on the STEEM Blockchain
Reinventing Stock Photography on the Blockchain
This is but a concept, but just came across the idea and wanted to throw it out to the community. Run with it if you like.
The world of stock photography is dominated by Getty Images, an American company based out of Seattle, Washington. With sites like iStockPhoto and more, this company is in a constant conquest to dominate the stock photography industry, acquiring platforms that sell stock photography and taking rather large cuts of the profits.
Having the ability to put the rewards for stock photography back into the hands of photographers would be a huge feat. There are many challenges to solving this issue, but the Steem platform could be in a unique position to change this paradigm.
One issue, currently, is the lack of perpetual payouts on Steem. However, should this change, this market could be ripe for an implementation on Steem.
How would it work?
Images could be hosted on IPFS. In order to download a stock photo, you'd be required to upvote a photo with a certain amount of Steem power, such that the payout equates to a given amount. This could also encourage people to obtain and power up more, so they're able to download more images, basically for free by staking their STEEM.
The same concept could also be applied to other assets, such as video clips, sound bytes, website themes, and more. Another site that has exploded in popularity here is ThemeForest, with their various sites targeted towards specific assets.
Would love to hear your thoughts.
it's a cool idea! One other issue is how to organize images here, and what about curating them? Should somebody determine if an image is good enough for sale or not?
Good point Anna. I agree. I think that the award element could also play into the curation. So, when you choose to "download" a photo for use, you'd effectively be upvoting it to pass the author rewards. By doing this, the photos that have more votes would rise to the top.
That said, I do think you'd need to have some other layer of curation. This could possibly be done by having the site owner delegate some STEEM Power to curation experts that'd be able to assist. Also, as a STEEM community owner, you get a "commission", from my understanding. This commission could be used to reward/pay these special curators as well.
I agree, getting "commission" for curation could be interesting!
Sounds like a good idea, though I'd go for various 'levels' of use. Something like this (from cheap to expensive):
In this way, the first could offer a small resolution image. The second a slightly larger one and the last two could offer full-size resolution.
that sounds pretty good!
We'd need a @Cheetah to find websites who use our art :)
That would be nice! I sometimes use google to search for images by right-clicking them and then pick the google search option. It gives results of picture plagiarism sometimes, though I've only used it for Steemit plagiarism so far.
Yes me too, I use that all the time. Would be cool to link to the author and give part of the attention to him. Say 5% for an Album cover?
I think it is a great idea. I also think that @playfulfoodie 's comment is a fantastic addition to your idea.
great idea
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"One issue, currently, is the lack of perpetual payouts on Steem."
This is indeed an issue with Steem. I have content from a decade ago on other sites still making me a trickle of money with ads. Even though it's not much it just adds up over time.
I have little doubt that it would also work like that on Steem, adding up to a nice little extra over time for authors.
Every once in a while I still get a vote on an old post on Steemit, so people do vote for older posts.
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