Scoopt

While studying for the test this week I kept thinking about how the Scoopt website can relate to a lot of the things we have been talking about.  It is a user generated website that not only provides pictures, but also provides news headlines.  When someone uploads a picture, the picture is licensed exclusively to Scoopt for 12 months, while they try to sell it.  Depending on their opinion of the quality of the photo, the picture is placed in Getty Images gallery or Scoopt's gallery if the photo is not very "hot."  Ok, so the program is run by Getty Images corporation, not by governments, or just being consumer run.  The site is a great example of collective intelligence, but the corporations decide what is "hot" and what is "not."  The copyright laws play out uniquely on the site, such that Scoopt claims exclusive rights for 12 months and then the producer is free to do what they will with it.  It is also a major example of convergence, participatory culture and produsage, because not only are producers putting up images, they are also being confronted by other content.  Thus, Scoopt is a greta site to visit to see how Web 2.0 is working.