Yahoo! Voices (formerly Associated Content) shutting down

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Giant Baby

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I received an email from Yahoo! Voices this morning (I wrote for Associated Content years ago and still receive page view payments for them from Yahoo!). The site will be shutting down effective July 31, 2014. All content will be removed and rights returned to the authors (except for those published under "Work for Hire" licenses). Once the final performance payments are made in mid-August, the contributor site will be shut down as well.

The button for submitting new content currently leads to a "Page Cannot Be Displayed" error. I think we can stick a pin in this one as a market for new content.
 

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That's too bad. That was a nice little extra wine money each month off of articles I wrote years ago...at least I may be able to re-sell some of my old exclusives. They are reverting rights even to the exclusives, provided they were not work-for-hire for other sites.
 

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How unfortunate. It was a little source of extra money, not to mention a nice activity to fill up spare time. D:
 

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I wonder what this means for content sites in general.
 
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