Hello Videomaker community:
Yesterday (by some miracle) I recorded a power line exploding because a lightning hit it. I didn't caught the lightning striking it, but I manage to record the rest of the "fireworks". I consider this as an opening to sell my footage, so I call a news media and guess what, they laugh at me. They told me "we don't give money for videos" and they only air the video if I decided to donate the video to them. This was not what I wanted so I politely thank them. I began to look on the internet and is indeed true, the news media don't usually give money for video, they expect people to donate their video just because their names will be mention on television. What a stupid investment that is, unless of course, you use it to promote your company, but in my case my video company is just a baby. So I keep looking and I came across this page http://www.sellmyvideo.co.uk/index.asp so I decide to send them an email to see what happen, but I think this is too good to be true. I show the video to a few colleagues and they love it and told me to upload it to Youtube and spread it as much as I can, but what benefits will this give me? So here is the thing, which option could be more beneficial, sharing it or selling it? Another thing I was thinking was to copyright the video, should I do that too?
Thanks in advance to all Videomaker community
