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Wired.com Goes Creative Commons: 50 Great Images That Are Now Yours
- thankswired 15y agoNot included: http://i.imgur.com/3rDPm.jpg http://i.imgur.com/3rDPm.jpg
- stfu 15y agoMaybe Greenwald has a similar version in his repository and is willing to share it.
- spking 15y agoI don't know if I'd call many of these "great". Mediocre might be a better description.
- stfu 15y agoApparently the pictures are also not allowed to be used within a non-commercial context. Taking into consideration that most of them cover public figures I don't see any use of them except for a journalistic context. And unless someone needs them in poster format it should be covered by the same rights that allow Google to show preview images in their image search. So I'd say overall pretty much useless and just a PR story for Wired Mag.
- notatoad 15y agoI think you got that backwards. You are allowed to use the images in a non commercial or editorial context. You can't use them in a commercial context. I thought they made that pretty clear.
- rmc 15y agoThe images are licenced BY-NC, which means they can't be used commerically. So you probably couldn't include them, at all, in your commerical magazine, say/
- s00pcan 15y agoAt the very least these could replace some photos on wikipedia pages.
- dmnd 15y agoActually, this isn't possible as the images are CC-NC[1] and Wikipedia has a policy that forbids images with a non-commercial clause in their licence[2]. [1]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Non-commercial_use_only_images http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Non-commercial_use_onl...
- andymangold 15y ago"50 Images that are now YOURS" is a bit misleading. The point of the Creative Commons License is that the images still belong to Wired, but now others are allowed to use them. This will only contribute to the "Creative Commons means it's free for me to use however/wherever I want" mindset.
- FrojoS 15y agoI agree. Usually, on HN the title shouldn't be changed but here I should have made an exception.
- sk5t 15y agoSome of these images are interesting, but I'd be very hard-pressed to call any great. Journalistic composition style / centered subjects at average distance and normal focal length, as-found lighting, some missed focus, several are crying out for a caption to find meaning (e.g., Ballmer).
- tsunamifury 15y agoWired.com isnt known for its photojournalism.
- wattjustin 15y agoBut, but, Trent Reznor! But seriously, I'd rather pay for better photos. Their intentions are in the right place though.
- andrenotgiant 15y agoThis is such a generous SEO Scheme by Wired.com "Photos must be properly attributed to the photographer and Wired.com, and we ask for a link back to the original story where the photo first appeared."