Popular Science Blog – Flickr, Blogmobs, and a Seriously Fascinating Lesson on Content Licensing
This weekend, I received an interesting email from someone I had never met before regarding some photos I’d posted to my Flickr pool:“…some slimeball was stealing pics from Flickr and representing them as his own professional work on his website (which has since been taken down)…I’ve got print screens of the two pictures I know he stole from your Flickr, if you want them. Just thought you would want to know.”
Flickr allows users to upload their works and organize them with tags, and while it is possible to make your photos available only to certain viewers and protect them with a copyright, Flickr encourages its users to make their images freely available to everyone via one of six Creative Commons licenses, which outline various definitions of free fair use. [...]
I had read about this last week. And it was interesting what the photographer had done (the plagiriser). I looked through his photographs and there where bad shots and then obviously good ones… And he even had a copy right on the images saying that they couldn’t be used. It was this reason I changed and put all my Flickr photos under the Creative commons License.
Tags: Blogging, flickr, Interesting, Legal, Photographs, Photography
