Stewart McSporran

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• July 12, 2001, on List of Weasels:

  When I was in my late teens I used to submit pictures to local newspapers, I didn't get much money, just seeing my name was enough. So it used to really annoy me if they went uncredited. While I'm not a professional photographer I can sympathise with all of this. (I write software, probably more pirated than pictures.) There is one idea you could look at borrowing from the software community. Micro payments. A lot of software amateurs are asking people to donate small amounts of money ($1-$5) if they like their programs. Sites like PayPal allow the transfer of such small sums at next to no additional cost. This is obviously not for corporate use, but would be ideal for individuals who don't intend to sell on derivatives of the work for profit. My wife and I write and make amateur videos (she won the Scottish First Reels competition this year). Quite often we would like to use photographs we find on the web, but these competitions stipulate that copyright clearance must b...