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I agree that finding buyers will be the big thing here.

I suspect a large, untapped market for this sort of thing for local newspapers as the buyers. Make sure there's good local search.

Photos of a fire in the town, or some store's opening, or any other impromptu news-worthy event will be captured via cameraphone before reporters hit the scene and these photos will be of good worth to the local papers.

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I suppose getting the GPS co-ordinates would help the local search. Most modern smart-phones have GPS nowadays, and I believe that they GPS co-ordinates are embedded into the images.

Why should local papers use your service when they can ask their readers to send them the photos directly? At least here in Switzerland there are already newspapers doing this.

News breaks, you write an article and you go to this site and find a photo for your article and post article with photo.

Or you post the article with a message (like BBC does too) saying "Are you there, send photos etc", go back update the article with someones photo etc.

Yes I know readers will automatically send some photos in, but a live stock library is a really good idea to complement readers photos (and whilst I might send a photo to the BBC, my local paper is pretty low down my list - I appreciate that differs on quality of local though).

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