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"Anil Dash wants Flickr to pay users for interesting photos.  But in many ways, it's already happening elsewhere.  TechCrunch reports on newcomer Fotolia, which seems like a more modern-looking version of iStockPhoto, with some clever new features.  Unlike most startups that get branded \"web 2.0\", these guys have a clear business model (buying and selling photos), but they also want to pay users who give photos away for free.  How can they afford that?  By advertising directly on the thumbnails, apparently.  The service is called Adthumb, and I'm keen to see if they can make it work.  They also have an affiliate scheme - you earn a percentage whenever someone you refer buys or sells photos.  TechCrunch writes:\n\nFotolia is a site where photographers can sell their images directly to consumers. They offer only royalty free images (Getty Images, for instance, offers a mix of royalty free and rights managed images). Photographers keep up to 80% of fees.\nThree types of rights may be purchased - web only, print only, and exclusive buyout. The exclusive buyout option results in the image being removed from the site, and no further sales of the image are made after that.\nFotolia has created an innovative pricing system to encourage use by photographers and manage the user experience. Photographers may price photos within certain ranges determined by their rank. The more sales a photographer has, the higher their rank. Prices start at zero and can be as high as $2,000 for an exclusive buyout.\nThe site is very well designed, and they\u2019ve integrated Ajax previews of images along with photographer tagging of images for easier searching. They have multi-language support (including blogs in four languages) and RSS for all results pages.\n\nI'm interested in all services which offer to pay users for their content, effort, attention and time.  If you spot any, let me know!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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