Posts tagged “Flickr”

Internet says, “nopa” to SOPA

Posted on January 19th, 2012

To help bring wider attention to the potential ramifications of SOPA and PIPA, an impressive list of internet heavyweights went black yesterday (United States time). While concern over the Bills has been simmering away online since last year, the 18 January blackout was designed to demonstrate the solidarity of it’s opponents and push it’s message to the general internet using population. Confirmed participants included Wikipedia, Google, Creative Commons, Electronic Frontier Foundation, WIRED, reddit, Mozilla, WordPress, Tumblr, Vimeo, Flickr, the icanhazcheezburger network and Internet Archive, among others. While Dominic Basulto thinks it’s too little, too late, pushing information about the Bills and why they are problematic in front of millions of internet users who are not digerati is hardly too little.

Categories: Copyright & intellectual property, Privacy, censorship & surveillance

Tagged: Creative Commons, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Flickr, Google, icanhazcheezburger network, internet archive, Mozilla, PROTECT IP Act (Bill) (USA), reddit, Stop Online Piracy Act of 2011 (Bill) (USA), Tumblr, Vimeo, Wikipedia, WIRED, WordPress

Two more Australian institutions join Flickr: The Commons

Posted on December 11th, 2008

This blog is of course about Creative Commons but occasionally I am prone to wander. At least talking about the public domain, like I am going to do right now, is related. In particular, I want to talk again about the Flickr: The Commons project. In the last few months the Australian War Memorial and the State Library of New South Wales joined Powerhouse Museum, Sydney on The Commons, bring the tally of Australian institutions contributing public domain images to the the repository to three. Imagine if every library, museum, archive and institution here in Australia were. I guess it is easy to say ‘Who cares’ to an initiative like this. Lots of old photos have been available for viewing in a number of libraries for years, doesn’t mean anyone really looks at them. As I have argued…

Categories: I'll filter this later

Tagged: AWM, Flickr, Flickr: The Commons, Imperial War Museum, National Library NZ, photography + public domain, Powerhouse Museum Sydney, public domain, State Library NSW, war photos

CC-licensed image used in Iron Man, but not under the licence

Posted on December 2nd, 2008

I just read on the Creative Commons blog that a photo published on Flickr by amateur photographer and web developer Jeremy Keith was used in Marvel-blockbuster Iron Man (2008, Paramount Pictures). On his site, Adactio, Jeremy humourously outlines how his “blurry and washed out” photo of his friend out the front of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center ended up in an big-budget feature. What’s interesting about this situation is that the photo in question was published under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic licence. “All of my Flickr pictures are published under a Creative Commons attribution licence,” he explains on his site,”One of the reasons I switched over to using this licence was so that people didn’t have to write and ask me whenever they want to…

Categories: I'll filter this later

Tagged: Australian Broadcasting Corporation, CC BY, CC Defining Noncommercial study (2009), Creative Commons, Creative Commons, Creative Commons blog, Flickr, Iron Man (2008), Jeremy Keith, Marvel Entertainment, Netpop Research, Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures