When I was 13, someone paid me $10 to write 350 words per week for the Halifax Mail Star. It was a record review column where I gave my teenage opinion on 4 new albums a month: rock, country, jazz and pop. Most of my life, someone paid me to write or promised to pay me. I’ve written on theatre, arts policy, technology, business consulting, poetry, short stories and journalism. I’ve written for newspapers, magazine, journals, for hire, and for the web.
Somehow with Web 2.0 and social media, creative people have gotten suckered into providing content for social media sites for nothing.
MySpace, Facebook, YouTube – the whole bunch of them are making money off creative people who post their work for free. Those companies are making money.
What changed the rules, as in you work you get paid?
This won’t last long or the creative quality of the content is going south.
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