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You could maybe make a case like this for someone like DN, which is a nonprofit. But do you really want ABC News Brought To You By Disney to be able to use your

You could maybe make a case like this for someone like DN, which is a nonprofit. But do you really want ABC News Brought To You By Disney to be able to use your picture of some newsworthy event in their primetime TV show for free? They're not giving away those ad spots for free in service of the public interest.

cwkoss 7y ago
My main concern is that it is in societies best interest to make the cost of reporting news low. Would be horrible to be in a situation like "all the good pictures of this event cost at least $2000, so if you won't pay for that, your audience can't see a visual of it" Do news agencies have to pay royalties on pictures which are 'adversarial'? ex. Trudeau in blackface? Seems like there are a class of images which society benefits from having them be free and not subject to intellectual property restrictions. Seems like capping royalties as a proportion of revenue earned by ads on that broadcast would be a sensible method of addressing this.