revenue

["Editor" <editor@content-wire.com>]

Alis wrote

>Yes, I do think it is fair for aggregators like Moreover to make revenue
out
>of third party headlines and not share that revenue with the third party in
>question.


Ummm. Negative from me Alis and Mike.

Yes, I may have a different opinion if its a qui pro quo situatio.
Aggregators bring me traffic - free of charge - and they get the headlines
revenue.
I could accept that as a potentially fair argument.
Fairness here would derive from how much revenue they make.
By all means if its small money, but tomorrow that could be millions.
It's a principle that needs to be examined from a copyright perspective/

Premise: Headlines are content in my book.

As a publisher - albeit self funded startup - I own my content and derive my
income from it (I wish). Is this what we mean by notification Mike?


Lets forsake the legitimacy of copyright law in this instance for
simplicity.

This means that I need to know what use my service providers are making of
my
content, and how much revenue they make of it. It's the only way I can know
if
their gratuity is fair.

Let's assume - for argument's sake - that Moreover harvests one million
headlines
per day , and their profits from headlines distribution fees to third
parties is one million internet dollars per day, (they wish) , I really want
to claim my percentage proportional
to the number of headlines that I produced that day.

Let's remember that we are discussing the model here, nothing against
Moreover
who do a great service and we love them/

I need to reiterate that it is unfair for aggregators - especially if they
have decent
investors -  to make a profit out of content, and not sharing that with poor
content providers who do the work. I am not santa klaus and aingot backing
either.

The difference with Google is that - to my knowledge - their revenues come
from
hiring out their own search algorithm (their intellectual property) and from
advertising.
They do not supply content for websites. To me there is a huge difference

And yes Alis, purplepages are the best Irish (content) website that I know
of

I am left wondering whether there is any legitimacy in my claim, but I think
it is...
No flames, just hot thoughts

paola dm
cans of worms provider