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3 wants to sell its users videos to ITN and Sky

Richard Wray in this morning’s Media Guardian reports that mobile network 3‘s See Me TV, where subscribers can post their "mini-movies" is getting a million downloads a month. Anyone whose video gets downloaded gets a penny reward, which means 3 is paying out £10k a month.

Good news for mobile camera-toters, you’d think.

Mr Wray’s piece focuses on news that ITN and Sky News are "in talks with 3" about using clips from the service on their new bulletins.

I’m not sure what the news is there, other than than that 3 would be acting as a middleman for its subscriber base, side-stepping agencies like Scoopt and the really direct method where people send in their clips direct to the news channels when there is a big story on.

The story once again raises issues of ownership and reward for content created by people caught up in major news events. Also has people worrying about people faking clips for financial reward. Though you’d need to get a lot of downloads for your clip to start feeling the benefit of that 1p royalty!

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Antony Mayfield

One response to “3 wants to sell its users videos to ITN and Sky”

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    alfie

    Copyright and the sidestepping of (semi) established routes to traditional media were exactly the issues I was thinking of when I read about 3’s new foray into broadcast. It’s clear that 3 are essentially taking ownership, how they reward their userbase remains to be seen.

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