[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

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Creative Commons Polska / Poland
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