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There are a ton of two-sided marketplaces out there that try to do this. It's a messy challenge involving rights management (no good photographer will agree to
by masona 7y ago
There are a ton of two-sided marketplaces out there that try to do this. It's a messy challenge involving rights management (no good photographer will agree to the contracts these companies offer), production workflows (all companies do it differently) and assignment complexities (by 'high-quality' you mean 'high-quality and custom to the project' because a nice but generic picture is mostly useless).
But you're right in that free photos like the ones from Unsplash are super expensive in the long run because of the search ranking penalty (you get grouped with all the spammers who are using those same free photos).
- Invictus0 7y ago1. Let photographers license their photos from a list of standard licenses 2. Let photographers set their own prices 3. Let buyers search by budget and by license 4. Startup charges a X% platform fee The market will take care of the rest.
- datavirtue 7y agoThis. It's high time to regulate rent seeking.
- tomcam 7y agoI like it. What happens if ownership of an image is disputed, or it turns out the photog uploaded a photo that she had copied off the web?
- nvr219 7y agoSend extortion letter
- nordsieck 7y ago> What happens if ownership of an image is disputed, or it turns out the photog uploaded a photo that she had copied off the web? Presumably the purchaser sues the photographer. One thing that marketplace could do is to require a bond from any photographers that would be used to help pay for any judgements.