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I thought you had to explicitly pick a license when uploading to flickr, I guess the photographers in this article must have randomly clicked on a non-NC CC lic
by 0x0 12y ago
I thought you had to explicitly pick a license when uploading to flickr, I guess the photographers in this article must have randomly clicked on a non-NC CC license without understanding their actions? It's not like this is hidden away in some 100 page T&C?
- ramses0 12y agoStupidity. Licenses are hard to understand in general, but they almost certainly said "Creative Commons, Commercial Use, Attribution" And then when somebody comes along and takes them up exactly on that offer and they get offended: "That's not what I meant... I didn't know somebody would actually do it... Gosh golly, those evil corporations are doing exactly what I told them they could do... It's not right! This is what's wrong with America!" I think it would have been good/better to reach out to people, give them a chance to opt-out if they weren't cool with it, but it could be nice to view flickr as not just images on the screen but potentially images on the wall too because there is some really nice stuff out there.
- RexRollman 12y agoConsidering that people do not read EULAs, that is not surprising.