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[image: Aunt Owwee]

Yep I LOVE FLICKR

The joy and benefits FlickR brings to me as an image sharing site far outweigh the meager $50 odd a year it costs me for a pro account. I love being able to share my life and visual captures of the world around me with those who are prepared to engage. For a small time outlay I can unwind and produce mosaics. For a small cost outlay I can share images with te world.

But one thing that REALLY pisses me off is that the default licence for FlickR is “All Rights Reserved”.

Now I don’t expect people to have any but the vaguest interest in photos of aunts or precious long weekends. But if I take a photo of some gorgeous wildlife that might be useful for someone I’m happy for them to use it, and the acknowledgment is great. I wouldn’t be happy if they profited from it or claimed it as their own. For these reasons I choose to assign my photos a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic Creative Commons licence.

My Street Art mosaic has been viewed 4597 times. It’s constructed from 36 images of others in FlickR prepared to make their images available via CC licence. The whole valued greater than the parts.

I’m quite sure that most FlickR users would feel the same but in their ignorance they cruise along accepting the default settings and without considering and setting an alternative.

If YOU are a FlickR user its time to check YOUR licence. It’s about give and take. It’s about a culture of collaboration.