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Yahoo's Flickr allows easy Creative Commons licensing
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machavillain
about 1 year ago about Yahoo
A big hurdle to releasing content under open licenses, like those at Creative Commons, is always co-ordinating and identifying this content. By making it painfully easy for users to tag their photos under various sharing licenses, Flickr (owned by Yahoo) has made it possible for millions and millions of photos to be posted and searched via CC licenses – which means they can be freely shared and reproduced in much less restrictive terms than traditional copyright (‘some rights reserved’). Non-profit projects such as Wikipedia are already starting to use CC-licensed photos from Flickr, and it is Flickr’s integration of CC into its interface which has allowed this.
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