We all have a photographer friend don't we. I do, I have at least 10 friends who are good photographers. Not only portrait, they do landscape, and even automobile photography. Photography is such a hot field to be in, because the amount of talent it takes is truly commendable. Only the best really find an income from this field. My friends always said how difficult they find it to make their passion profitable. There is no one stop solution where they can showcase their talent to gain popularity and hopefully, a client.
Haven't you seen photographers posting pictures that says "no free pictures"? You can't really blame them. They are using their skill, their ability, their device (that costs a good amount) and their time (which we really can't put a price tag on). It is true they are appreciated for their efforts, but mere appreciations don't pay their bills, does it?
Wemark - Giving stock photography a whole new meaning
Wemark is a project that works primarily upon blockchain. The platform helps photographers to upload the photographs that they've taken, making them available for the public to license and use in any place that they want. You might be thinking that what most stock photograph sites so. Yes, but Wemark has made its mark by possessing some remarkable differences.
The project tries to eliminate some problems that the existing stock photography sites have. First of all, most stock photo sites pay only a portion of the royalty to the photographer, to make the platform profitable (Shutterstock and Getty images pays only 30% to the photographers). Secondly, the photographers are not given correct information about who licensed their photos, when. This reduces the interest of a photographer to pursue the particular platform as a medium to showcase their abilities, and to monetize their talent.
So how is Wemark different? The platform stands apart in the basic technology that it uses -- blockchain. The use of blockchain makes the licensing process much easier and trustworthy. One of the best use cases of blockchain is to eliminate unnecessary middlemen from any transaction of value. Wemark makes use of the same principle here, by eliminating the middleman in the payment of royalty. The result? The photographer gets a whopping 85%! It gets even better, because every transaction is recorded in the blockchain, photographers can know exactly who licensed their photo when. This also acts sort of like an experience/expertise certificate, because all of the licensing details are stored in a distributed, public, immutable ledger!
The Wemark platform makes use of its own token for the payment of royalties. The token goes by the name Wemark Token (WMK). The blockchain technology allows the platform to freely use this token for the exchange of value in the marketplace, and also drastically reduce the transaction fee. All this results to the massive royalty boost to the photographer.
Concluding Remarks
The Wemark platform can revolutionize the stock photography domain, because photographers can now use this platform to exhibit their skill and ability, and get noticed and even get paid for each time their pictures are used somewhere. This is easily one of the simplest, direct applications of the blockchain technology. The project is really exciting, and can really motivate photographers to really pursue this field for benefits.
Website - https://www.wemark.com/
Whitepaper - https://www.wemark.com/whitepaper.pdf
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Telegram - https://t.me/wemark
Published by - dannywhelan
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Thanks for this info. Definitely worth checking out.