You know what? They (Flickr) ought to be paying us! If they are making money off our work, should we not get a piece of that pie also?

37Signals’ Jason Fried riffs off a post by SixApart’s Anil Dash, asking whether Flickr shouldn’t be sharing some of the ad revenue it gets. The photo-sharing site, now owned by Yahoo!, runs Google ads with the photos people post–and it just added the ability to print them, too. Jason wonders if, before long, the people who contribute to Flickr will come to believe they should share in the monetary spoils, not just get free hosting of their photos and maybe a little social capital. [Read the rest]

[tags]web 2.0,flickr,sixapart,website communities[/tags]