Scoopt Camera Phone Photographer Agency
After our previous post that informed you that Now You Can Sell Your Camera Phone Pictures, BBC features a new article about the new Camera Phone Photographer Agency called Scoopt:
Kyle MacRae, whose agency Scoopt represents mobile snappers so they get paid for their work, said there are serious ethical issues at stake.
Following the London bomb attacks and Asian tsunami, news outlets have been keen to exploit mobile snaps and video.
Cameraphone growth has let more people capture events as they happen.
Such hazy snaps usually taken by amateurs who witness events before they hit the headlines are proving valuable to traditional news organisations.
Although Mr MacRae is passionate about the potential impact witness or citizen journalists can have in changing what becomes newsworthy, he said that should not mean people go out deliberately searching for that elusive scoop.
Unlike professional photographers, the people Scoopt is interested in are the “witnesses” armed with cameraphones on the ground.
