Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Adam Fields <cc-licenses345982 AT aquick.org>]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 02:07:39PM -0800, Matt Farley wrote:
> 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.

Um, no. Each picture has its own license, chosen by the
photographer. Some of them are BY, but many are not.

> 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"

I believe credit in the comments of the page, or wherever the
copyright for the page is are both acceptable for this.

But that my non-lawyer belief.

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

Setting aside the special deal that flickr has (which is in its terms
of service), sure there's credit - there's a username under each
photo. Or were you talking about something else?

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