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"Note that flickr only has Creative Commons and All Rights Reserved options. There is no entry for public domain, nor for the kinds of restrictions that the gov

by wooster 17y ago

"Note that flickr only has Creative Commons and All Rights Reserved options. There is no entry for public domain, nor for the kinds of restrictions that the government would like to put on these photos." This is not true. Please read the copyright status next to the image here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/4333446300/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/4333446300/ which clearly indicates the photo is a United States Government work, and links here: http://www.usa.gov/copyright.shtml http://www.usa.gov/copyright.shtml

thwarted 17y ago
Well, it's nice that Flickr provides other options, but I only bothered to test my own account and I only see CC and All rights reserved, and there is no indication that any other option is provided or special exceptions are made for specific accounts. If I was downvoted, whoever it was, for not having access to the flickr account of the US government so I can see all the options provided to that account, I apologize.
InclinedPlane 17y ago
That's nice. How many flickr accounts have the option to set "US Government work" as the license for their photos? No one other than the whitehouse account, so far as I'm aware.
- wooster 17y ago
  A quick Google search shows: http://www.flickr.com/photos/statephotos http://www.flickr.com/photos/statephotos http://www.flickr.com/photos/usepagov http://www.flickr.com/photos/usepagov http://www.flickr.com/photos/fccdotgov http://www.flickr.com/photos/fccdotgov The usage of this copyright designation (which apparently has to be set manually by Flickr) is described here: https://forum.webcontent.gov/resource/resmgr/flickr_best_practices_guide.pdf https://forum.webcontent.gov/resource/resmgr/flickr_best_pra... Which is a US government document describing the use of Flickr for government works.
  - InclinedPlane 17y ago
    So, out of several million (>10mil according to most estimates) Flickr users 3 of them have one additional setting available. This is roughly equivalent to the EPA allowable limit for cyanide in drinking water, which is to say: comparatively insignificant. For everyone else (>99.99997% of flickr users) the only licensing options available on flickr are "all rights reserved" and a few variations of the creative commons license.

by wooster 17y ago

thwarted 17y ago

Well, it's nice that Flickr provides other options, but I only bothered to test my own account and I only see CC and All rights reserved, and there is no indication that any other option is provided or special exceptions are made for specific accounts. If I was downvoted, whoever it was, for not having access to the flickr account of the US government so I can see all the options provided to that account, I apologize.

InclinedPlane 17y ago

That's nice. How many flickr accounts have the option to set "US Government work" as the license for their photos? No one other than the whitehouse account, so far as I'm aware.

wooster 17y ago
A quick Google search shows: http://www.flickr.com/photos/statephotos http://www.flickr.com/photos/statephotos http://www.flickr.com/photos/usepagov http://www.flickr.com/photos/usepagov http://www.flickr.com/photos/fccdotgov http://www.flickr.com/photos/fccdotgov The usage of this copyright designation (which apparently has to be set manually by Flickr) is described here: https://forum.webcontent.gov/resource/resmgr/flickr_best_practices_guide.pdf https://forum.webcontent.gov/resource/resmgr/flickr_best_pra... Which is a US government document describing the use of Flickr for government works.
- InclinedPlane 17y ago
  So, out of several million (>10mil according to most estimates) Flickr users 3 of them have one additional setting available. This is roughly equivalent to the EPA allowable limit for cyanide in drinking water, which is to say: comparatively insignificant. For everyone else (>99.99997% of flickr users) the only licensing options available on flickr are "all rights reserved" and a few variations of the creative commons license.