That Yahoo doesn’t think of this-and that some usually thoughtful people are defending Yahoo on the grounds that the CC license allows what they’re doing-I find profoundly depressing. Whether or not CC licenses would benefit from what Jen proposes, Yahoo, if it understood the spirit of the community it bought in Flickr-or even if it simply wanted to pretend to understand-could prevent a lot of bad feeling by writing to members whose work is covered by CC Attribution licenses asking for feedback on its plan making the plan opt-in and offering some kind of revenue sharing for those members who don’t mind having Yahoo sell prints of their work.This feature lets you manage your photos by editing all the necessary settings. A gallery can accommodate up to 50 photos or videos. Galleries is another way of grouping images, but you can use this feature to gather photos that belong to others. Read Jen Simmons’s I Don’t Want “Creative Commons By” To Mean You Can Rip Me Off, which addresses weaknesses in the current CC licensing that permit Yahoo to do what it’s doing clearer and more subtle licensing would prevent it. Flickr will let you download, delete, or share an entire album in one go. ![]() Now it’s like helplessly watching a cocaine-addicted friend snort up their kid’s college fund. Sometimes, for years, it has been like loving a friend who is in a coma. I’ve had a Flickr Pro account for about ten years. Other friends of mine still work there as designers & developers. Yahoo acquired Flickr in 2005 and under former Chief. I know the site’s founders (who left years ago). SmugMug, a company that lets photographers sell and share their photos, has acquired Flickr, a pioneering rival for sharing photos online. That’s how Yahoo is supposed to make money from my hobby. I pay for a Flickr Pro account, and am happy to do so. Fine with me.īut Yahoo selling the stuff? Cheesy, desperate, and not at all fine with me. ![]() The license makes my work available to all publications and products, whether commercial or non-commercial. That’s why I chose a Commercial Attribution license. Some of the publications and businesses that use my photos make no money at all. That’s why I chose a Creative Commons license. And who gets the dough for these photos we took? Only Yahoo.Īs a photographer, I now have to choose whether to prevent people from using my photos, or prevent Yahoo from selling them. This means photos we’ve taken with the idea of giving them away freely will now be sold, whether we like it or not. From Dazed comes news that Flickr is about to sell off our Creative Commons photos.
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