[cc-community] avoiding the CC licensing path by rights users

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Thu Apr 10 07:36:19 EDT 2008


On Thursday 10 April 2008 05:56:15 Alek Tarkowski wrote:
> 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 have thought of another possible reason for some players.
c) Don't want to be seen as legitimizing Free licensing of copyright works.
>
> 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

all the best,

drew


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