Well the traditional approach is to contact them and secure their permission. But as you alluded, that doesn't scale.
So perhaps there's a startup opportunity here, for a system that secures permission from people who are ok with their content being reproduced without their prior consent.
Perhaps there could be a service that creates a list of web sites where the content is licensed Creative Commons. Then, if someone was going to create a web app like this, they could filter that list against their web app to only include sites that have been licensed creative commons.
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Let's make this a constructive debate. Do you have any thoughts on a system that could be developed to secure permissions of the original creator?
Well the traditional approach is to contact them and secure their permission. But as you alluded, that doesn't scale.
So perhaps there's a startup opportunity here, for a system that secures permission from people who are ok with their content being reproduced without their prior consent.
Perhaps there could be a service that creates a list of web sites where the content is licensed Creative Commons. Then, if someone was going to create a web app like this, they could filter that list against their web app to only include sites that have been licensed creative commons.