Yes, again my post was in regards to people who are posting news from RSS or youtube sites where a license to repost ensures that traffic and credit are attributed to the author. I would like to see a system like Reddit where duplicate links are discovered by the posting system so that there isn't more then one news article linked as you have suggested is a problem.

As far as payout, that is up to the freemarket to decide how much the curation of such news and youtube videos should be worth. They are worth something of value to the people who have upvoted obviously, since they are basically saying yes this should be on the network and viewed by many. Again as long as they have the rights/license to post said content I don't think it is worth enforcement. This is better left to people who are actively trying to claim or publish content that they don't have rights to.