[cc-licenses] Flickr photos with revoked licenses

Evan Prodromou evan at prodromou.name
Fri Apr 28 14:38:56 EDT 2006


On Fri, 2006-28-04 at 20:03 +0200, Erik Moeller wrote:

> Unfortunately, Flickr makes it trivial to change the licensing for all
> photos by a user retroactively. [...]
> 
> What are our legal obligations? Do we have to retroactively delete
> these photos, or can we state that, since they were once flagged as
> being e.g. CC-BY, they can be assumed to always be CC-BY, no matter
> what Flickr says?

Creative Commons licenses are technically for always and forever. It's
kind of annoying that Flickr doesn't have more notification for the user
to this effect.

I probably wouldn't insist on the matter, though. If the licensor really
doesn't want you to use the work, why go out of your way to use it?
There's too much other Free Stuff out there to make a big deal about it.

If you want to get super-fancy, maybe when you detect a change in the
license for a photo you've used, send Flickr notification to the
photographer, and let them know how they could request to get the photo
taken down.

~Evan

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Evan Prodromou <evan at prodromou.name>
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