[cc-community] avoiding the CC licensing path by rights users
Alek Tarkowski
alek at creativecommons.pl
Thu Apr 10 05:56:15 EDT 2008
Hello,
I'd like to share an anecdotal story that I find important, as it might
hint a larger problem:
A major Polish daily, in it's online version, published an article
illustrated by photos from Flickr. At least one of them was CC BY
licensed, and they did not provide proper attribution. I contacted the
author of the photo and got a response, that she was contacted by
editors and gave them permission.
In short, the editors avoided the CC licensing path. There are two
possibilites:
a) they did not notice / know about it - CC markings at Flickr are
notoriously small and there is no clear information / explanation of
what they mean
b) they did not consider this path sufficiently secure
I wonder, whether this happens more often - that CC is good for private
use, but large institutional actors do not trust this dis-intermediation
and rely on traditional licensing schemes....
Cheers,
Alek
--
koordynator / public lead
Creative Commons Polska / Poland
http://creativecommons.pl
skype: alektarkowski
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