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At first I started with a Blogspot with a bunch of cat gifs and a couple of Google ads. Once I earned enough money to buy a domain name for this project, I boug

by tarball 13y ago

At first I started with a Blogspot with a bunch of cat gifs and a couple of Google ads. Once I earned enough money to buy a domain name for this project, I bought http://catgifpage.com http://catgifpage.com and designed a cheap-but-fun interface for the visitors I targeted. As I am more a “dog” person, I decided one year (and about 1000€) later to open http://doggifpage.com http://doggifpage.com. It increased a bit my incomes but not so much. As you may know, the Internet loves cats, cats and cats! In 2013, I earned almost 4000€ for about 10 fun hours of gif gathering! I have some plans for 2014 but I want to keep this project fun and certainly not time-consuming.

hrnnnnnn 13y ago
You got the copyright holders' permission to use those gifs, I take it?
- bpierre 13y ago
  I’m genuinely interested: do you have any example of a GIF/LOL website which owns the rights on the published content?
  - cinitriqs 13y ago
    Lol, touché! and how about google? does google have permission to show gifs jpegs/whatever video/.. online when people do a search on any term in particular? Guess there are loopholes for big companies only ;) You either have no money to pay for a lawyer and go bust or you buy all the lawyers so that no-one will be left to sue you... sort of kind of... doesn't make sense but you catch my drift right? :D
  - hrnnnnnn 13y ago
    No. I just think it's unethical to make money from someone else's work without compensating them. "But everyone else is doing it" is the kind of reasoning small children use.
    - bpierre 13y ago
      That was not my reasoning, I thought you had some examples in mind. I think the only solution to respect the copyright for this kind of content (amateur content with no identified author) would be to stop publishing it: you can’t sue Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter etc. Just to be sure: are we talking about the original authors, or the websites who add their watermarks on it?

by tarball 13y ago

hrnnnnnn 13y ago

You got the copyright holders' permission to use those gifs, I take it?

bpierre 13y ago
I’m genuinely interested: do you have any example of a GIF/LOL website which owns the rights on the published content?
- cinitriqs 13y ago
  Lol, touché! and how about google? does google have permission to show gifs jpegs/whatever video/.. online when people do a search on any term in particular? Guess there are loopholes for big companies only ;) You either have no money to pay for a lawyer and go bust or you buy all the lawyers so that no-one will be left to sue you... sort of kind of... doesn't make sense but you catch my drift right? :D
- hrnnnnnn 13y ago
  No. I just think it's unethical to make money from someone else's work without compensating them. "But everyone else is doing it" is the kind of reasoning small children use.
  - bpierre 13y ago
    That was not my reasoning, I thought you had some examples in mind. I think the only solution to respect the copyright for this kind of content (amateur content with no identified author) would be to stop publishing it: you can’t sue Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter etc. Just to be sure: are we talking about the original authors, or the websites who add their watermarks on it?