Reinventing Stock Photography on the Blockchain

This is but a concept, but just came across the idea and wanted to throw it out to the community. Run with it if you like.

The world of stock photography is dominated by Getty Images, an American company based out of Seattle, Washington. With sites like iStockPhoto and more, this company is in a constant conquest to dominate the stock photography industry, acquiring platforms that sell stock photography and taking rather large cuts of the profits.

Having the ability to put the rewards for stock photography back into the hands of photographers would be a huge feat. There are many challenges to solving this issue, but the Steem platform could be in a unique position to change this paradigm.

One issue, currently, is the lack of perpetual payouts on Steem. However, should this change, this market could be ripe for an implementation on Steem.

How would it work?

Images could be hosted on IPFS. In order to download a stock photo, you'd be required to upvote a photo with a certain amount of Steem power, such that the payout equates to a given amount. This could also encourage people to obtain and power up more, so they're able to download more images, basically for free by staking their STEEM.

The same concept could also be applied to other assets, such as video clips, sound bytes, website themes, and more. Another site that has exploded in popularity here is ThemeForest, with their various sites targeted towards specific assets.

Would love to hear your thoughts.