One of the reasons I don't use Flickr

All licensed appropriately by the looks of things. If you don't want your work used in this manner don't use the more open Creative Commons licences.
 
Can you not change your privacy setting etc? Must check what mine are.
 
steveo_mcg said:
If you don't want your work used in this manner don't use the more open Creative Commons licences.
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^^^ this. Set default license to None (All rights Reserved) - and maybe use the "batch" function to reset all your prior uploads should you wish...

(then, if someone uses your photo without prior contact and payment, send them a bill for it!)



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TheBigYin said:
^^^ this. Set default license to None (All rights Reserved) - and maybe use the "batch" function to reset all your prior uploads should you wish...

(then, if someone uses your photo without prior contact and payment, send them a bill for it!)



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Exactly this, most people either don't want the hassle of creating their own website for hosting or have the knowledge to do so, but they can set up and use Flickr appropriately
 
That option wasn't available when Flickr first started. I know what to do but my issue is most folk don't and I don't see why the default setting is CC?
 
admirable said:
That option wasn't available when Flickr first started. I know what to do but my issue is most folk don't and I don't see why the default setting is CC?
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If Flickr is capable of being instructed quite easily to do what I want it to do, why would it be a reason for me to stop using Flickr that most people use it stupidly? After all, exactly the same is true of my camera.
 
chris malcolm said:
If Flickr is capable of being instructed quite easily to do what I want it to do, why would it be a reason for me to stop using Flickr that most people use it stupidly? After all, exactly the same is true of my camera.
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My apologies, you're quite correct
 
admirable said:
That option wasn't available when Flickr first started. I know what to do but my issue is most folk don't and I don't see why the default setting is CC?
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It's been about as long as I've been using Flickr (since 2008) and the default is "All rights reserved" (although Flickr encourage CC licensing).
 
There was a similar story a while ago where a photographer was complaining because he'd put some images on Flickr under a CC licence that went on to be used elsewhere and then they suddenly wanted payment for it.
 
KitsuneAndy said:
There was a similar story a while ago where a photographer was complaining because he'd put some images on Flickr under a CC licence that went on to be used elsewhere and then they suddenly wanted payment for it.
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I've been paid when images I placed on Flickr were used against the terms of the CC license* - the "noncommercial" options of CC licensing are a useful compromise. But I must admit, I stopped using that as quite frankly any sort of CC license seems to be taken as an excuse to take the p*** these days. Lots of the API users aren't distinguishing between the different forms of CC license.


* I still have the compliment slip saying "we don't pay for Flickr images" that was enclosed attached to the cheque... :D
 
admirable said:
That option wasn't available when Flickr first started. I know what to do but my issue is most folk don't and I don't see why the default setting is CC?
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I thought the default setting was all rights reserved? Mine is set to that and I've never changed it.
 
I've just looked at my account, had bother remembering the password, apparently I joined in 2006 but I think it was earlier. Might be that was when Yahoo took over? You are correct the default setting is now ARR and this only applied to all future images uploaded, not to images previously online, might still be the same?
 
Ordnance Survey use cc images too, nowadays. Obviously a government lead initiative. ;)
 
Alastair said:
I've been paid when images I placed on Flickr were used against the terms of the CC license* - the "noncommercial" options of CC licensing are a useful compromise.
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The "non-commercial" option is slightly ambiguous.

Does it mean that an image can't be used on a site which carries adverts (even most blogs do), or simply that it can't be used in advertising/marketing?

(The latter would be Getty's definition.)
 
People giving work away with a CC licence are killing professional stock photography - for a credit! Selfish in the extreme. Flickr is a free shop for people looking for pictures. I would put anything on there.
 
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snap-happy said:
People giving work away with a CC licence are killing professional stick photography - for a credit! Selfish in the extreme. Flickr is a free shop for people looking for pictures. I would put anything on there.
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Professional stick photography? I always found the subjects a bit wooden TBH.
 
snap-happy said:
People giving work away with a CC licence are killing professional stick photography - for a credit! Selfish in the extreme. Flickr is a free shop for people looking for pictures. I would put anything on there.
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Pre-Flickr what stock photography were all those websites using?

(it's a trick question)
 
admirable said:
It is now for all new uploads but it wasn't in the early days
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Must have been prior to 2008 then, as it's always been for me. Seems odd to wait 7 years to complain about it :)
 
TheBigYin said:
^^^ this. Set default license to None (All rights Reserved) - and maybe use the "batch" function to reset all your prior uploads should you wish...

(then, if someone uses your photo without prior contact and payment, send them a bill for it!)



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You can't retrospectively change the licence, then try and charge people. If they have the image under a CC licence, they're free to use the image within those terms.
 
st599 said:
If they have the image under a CC licence, they're free to use the image within those terms.
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If they can prove that they took the image before you changed the licence, then that's true, yes.

However, as Flickr provides the batch utility for changing all the old shots to a different licence, it does at least provide a way of bolting the stable door for any NEW downloading of the image, which has got to be worth a couple of seconds worth of clicking a mouse...

Its certainly less hassle than setting up a whole new photo-hosting website for yourself and then painstakingly uploading everything that you have on your existing flickr account, ensuring that every image is there, swapping the links to pictures on every forum you've ever posted a flickr image to to point to the new hosting, removing every image from flickr and closing the account... I'd certainly not fancy doing that for the 168,333 images on my Flickr account :)
 
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