On your 2nd topic I think it's important to understand that reportstorms.com will being catering to a broader audience than just the spotter community specifically the general public. In my days working TV, I found that tv viewers would send in hundreds or thousands of pictures of snow or severe weather. Weather Central is trying to make this process much easier because right now the TV mets have to copy stuff from their email to their weather computers and then convert the image or movie to the proper format.
How you choose to deliver and charge for you photographs is always your decision. If you do want to send something to the media for use on air, there are multiple ways of approaching that from being a paid chaser for a station, to walking a video tape into a TV station and asking for a check, to emailing a picture without asking for anything. Reportstorms.com is just one of those ways.
Thanks,
Andy
Respectfully, Andy you still did not answer my main question(s)
What happens to said video after it is sent using your product? Are the video/pics on your server and does it remain there? I am assuming since it is not a direct link to the "local" station that it is stored on a drive....what happens to that data? Who is responsible for it?
Since you posted here on ST seeking interested parties(chasers) to paticipate I was under the assumtion that it was geared more towards us so to speak, however; IMO it does not matter if it is a chaser/spotter or Joe public sending stuff in or through your product, they still have copyrights to what they shoot video or otherwise and should IMO always get credit.
Does your product allow such and again, just who is responsible for the video/pics after sent?
After many years in the media, I certainly understand your thought process as far a the broader audience, but again, this is another reason the market is so flooded.....things like Ireporter,
Weather Warrior and the like. I do not see any difference between your product and any of those which I am sure, we can all agree, has helped to kill the chance for a chaser to make a buck or two and help pay for his/her gas or whatever.
All the while your company and and whomever you partner with is making money off the hard work we chasers are doing.
I am not trying to sound like a jerk here and I truly mean no offense but, It never ceases to amaze me at how a company tries to make money off of someone else's doings and hard work....basically getting something for nothing IMO.
When I still worked at KAKE, Jay Prater and I had a wonderful system that we used for video, pics and such. It was called Ipixcel and it worked really good, I used it out in the field to send live vid/pics back as well as "store and forward" and Jay could also use the same program to link all pics/vid coming into the station from any number of sources including e-mail....All this without any questions or worry about the video or pictures.
Could your product be set up much in the same way?
Again, I do not mean any offense and I hope you have not taken it as such, but I believe that these issues are real and could be bad for the chasing community most particularly, for those of us that are lucky enough to make a sale of our video or pics on a regular basis.
