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[cc-licenses] Question about the CC Licenses

From: "Matt Farley" <mfarley AT sac-yolomvcd.com>
To: "cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org" <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [cc-licenses] Question about the CC Licenses
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 14:07:39 -0800

Title: Message

I have a question about the photos in the /creativecommons/ section. I've seen a few places that stated their photos came from the CCL section on Flickr -- I hadn't heard of this and excitedly checked it out -- as I'm always looking for good photos to use in web design.

From what I could gather from reading about the licenses at www.flickr.com/creativecommons/, all photos on there are released with a (BY / Attribution) clause -- which states that you can use the photo, if you give the author credit.

How are we supposed to credit the author when we're embedding/editing part of the image to fit in a website template or other document? I mean if I want use your photos as a backdrop for a sleek web interface -- it's not very user-friendly to slap "THE PHOTO IN THE BACKGROUND HERE -> WAS MADE BY BIGBOB22"

Further -- I didn't see any credit given to any photographers in the aforementioned sites?

Am I missing something?

Thanks!
-Matt

[cc-licenses] Question about the CC Licenses, Matt Farley, 03/09/2006
- Re: [cc-licenses] Question about the CC Licenses, Adam Fields, 03/09/2006
- Re: [cc-licenses] Question about the CC Licenses, Terry Hancock, 03/10/2006