Heaven forbid -- an online video site wants to share its ad revenues with the video makers sharing their work on the site. Here's a CNET interview with eefoof founder Kevin Flynn, who got the idea after inspiring a popular short that spread across the Internet without any compensation to him:

"We were just looking for a model that didn't involve stealing other people's work," Flynn said. "I think that paying content creators is the next wave. I think that in the next month were going to see a dozen sites do the same thing."

This is heresy! We can't have an amateur-to-amateur culture if the amateurs are paid! Then they're no longer amateurs! Doesn't Flynn know that when he inspired Peanut Butter Jelly Time his only reward was supposed to be the satisfaction of having enriched the greater culture?

posted by Patrick Ross @ 10:15 AM | Access: Commons, Fair Use, Orphan Works, Public Domain, Free Culture Movement, Media: Video, Music...

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