Patent ID: 8489510

Claim:
A device, for selling intangible property rights, comprising: a processor; a memory comprising a purchaser module, an offer module, and an acceptance module, wherein: computer-executable instructions of the purchaser module, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising: receiving news-related content selected from a group consisting of a photograph, a video clip, an audio clip, a story, and an interview obtained from an individual that is (A) involved in gathering news and (B) desirous to sell intangible property rights (i) being associated with the content, (ii) being owned by the individual, (iii) being offered for sale by the individual, and (iv) comprising non-exclusive rights that would grant a potential purchaser a limited right to use the received content, the limited right being a limited number of copies; and identifying, based on each of multiple factors comprising (a) a subject of the content received, (b) an audience for the content received, and (c) the intangible property rights, the potential purchaser for the intangible property rights, wherein the audience for the content received is selected from a group consisting of a national audience and an international audience; computer-executable instructions of the offer module, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising: creating an offer to purchase the intangible property rights; and transmitting the offer directly to the potential purchaser; and computer-executable instructions of the acceptance module, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform operations comprising receiving an acceptance of the offer from the potential purchaser.