Comments on: Nextstop is brilliant (and a threat to copyright owners)

By: Tomas

Tomas — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:13:25 +0000

Nextstop is quite innocent now but I'm wonder what happen when they going to "commercialize" the site. A link back can be thought as fair but its like 1% see the link and 0.1% click on it and its very little in comparation what the photos give to the site, there is no source on the thumbnails for example. A simple user probably "steal" from Nextstop and put Nextstop as source, so its quite messed up. Google and other companies don't go this far. In the end, don't you want to do things that feel right in the heart?

By: heather hapeta

heather hapeta — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:43:11 +0000

Hi Jeremy, this blog made me think of the 4 or 5 posts of yours that I re-posted - without your permission - on my blog http://kiwitravelwriter.wordpress.com how does that sit with you? of course there is a live link back to you on them all . please check out and let me know! cheers heather hapeta AKA kiwitravelwriter

By: Carl Sjogreen

Carl Sjogreen — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:53:13 +0000

Hey Jeremy -- I'm glad you (largely) liked what you found on nextstop. We're really trying to build a resource that's useful for everyone by helping members easily connect a bunch of otherwise disconnected information on the web (including photographs). Most people we talk to are excited about more visibility for their photos (and we do provide attribution and a live link for every photo), but if people aren't happy with how their photo is being used we're more than happy to remove it. See http://www.nextstop.com/community/help/p/10007/where-do-the-pictures-come-from/ for more information. Carl Sjogreen Co-founder, nextstop.com

By: Jeremy Head

Jeremy Head — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:51:44 +0000

Hi David I hadn't realised it was a live link. So that's also quite nice (more links is always good)... but I think the real problem is sites like Flickr with multiple users and copyright owners and even multiple types of copyright too. Just crediting Flickr for a pic that I've put up there in my photostream isn't good enough. I completely agree with you re reviews - as per my post a week or so back about UGC and the need for moderation and curation etc: http://www.travelblather.com/2009/06/ugc-reviews-content-travel-editing.html Thanks for your comments! Jeremy

By: David McRee

David McRee — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:21:28 +0000

Yes, Jeremy, I see what you mean. I just searched for "Siesta Key, FL" and I see that they scraped a photo from my beachhunter.net website and just credited me. At least they did provide a live link to my site. While I agree that they are definitely violating my copyright, there isn't anything I can do about it, so I choose to emphasize the benefits of it. It will probably send more traffic to my website. My experience is that "reviews" by the average traveler are not worth the time it takes to read them. That's the downside to TripAdvisor--you don't know which review to believe because no one has developed any trust or credibility. So I'm not concerned too much about Nextstop taking traffic away from me. I'm not sending traffic to them, but they will be sending traffic to me. I can live with that. It is a bit irksome though.