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Subject: Websites that provide content to license for SMS.
Category: Computers
Asked by: stevemcd-ga
List Price: $25.00
Posted: 27 Jul 2004 09:59 PDT
Expires: 26 Aug 2004 09:59 PDT
Question ID: 379727
Background - I am devolping a portal site to deliver dynamic text
content via SMS. Such as news,weather,horoscopes,etc.... I assume -
that if I am charging people to have access to content - I need to pay
a license/royalty to the author of the content.  There are a handful
of websites on the net that have this service - and you usually pay a
monthly fee to have "access" to "premium" content.

My Question: What internet based companies provide "premium" content
for SMS - where I can pay a license fee (or no fee) to redistribute
the data/content by SMS for a fee to my end users?  And/Or, are there
content sites that will allow  their content to be distributed so long
as you mention the authors name?  I need about 5 sources/links.

Example: I download/access a horoscope for Leos, then redistribute
that horoscope to 1000 SMS phones who requested that daily horoscope. 
I will charge each user a certain amount for each SMS they receive of
premium content.  Another example, I access headlines from CNN - and
deliver these headlines to users who request a daily news update from
CNN.

Thank in advance for your help.

Steve
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Subject: Re: Websites that provide content to license for SMS.
From: isk-ga on 29 Jul 2004 19:55 PDT
 
Well this seems like a fairly standard case of gaining the original
creators or owners written permition and or licence. For Example with
CNN they will get there news feed from one of many independant news
feeds, ROUTERS beeing the most well known, as for charts and the like,
there are a whole host of chart creation systems available both in
shareware and pay format tat create scopes on the fly day by day and
for each sign and assign a large group of generic you will be luck or
you will be sad lines to a standard filter system and create the
typical looking scope that we all see in the papers etc, OK there not
made by a "proffesional" but there as plausable as anything else you
will see in the daily's / In essance you just need the permition of
the company or person who owns the material in the first place to go
sell it as your own feed.

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