FLICKR SNAPPER GETS COMPENSATION
Today Online in Singapore reports today about a photographer who has successfully obtained compensation from a publisher who 'took' an image from his Flickr account and published it in a magazine.
An image created by William Cho was used in the May edition of Jetstar Magazine, and after a tip-off he appears to have been successful in getting S$750 in compensation from publishers Ink Publishing.
Speaking to Today Online he said: ""It is the way that they try to sneak around that makes me angry. I could have given my photographs for free but at least people should ask".
The fact is that a number of magazine publishers use Flickr as a useful source of free images. Flickr uses Creative Commons licensing, and depending upon the level chosen by the user in some cases there's actually no need for a publisher to make payment or even contact the photographer for approval prior to re-publishing an image. The only thing required to use more any of more than 27 million images currently available under the 'Attribution' license is a credit or by-line.
2 comments:
This is absolutely incorrect. there are a number of license types available for images in Flickr and CC-Attribute is just one of them. The majority are still All Rights Reserved and require the creator's permission to use.
However, there are a lot of CC-No Commercial-Attribute or CC-No Derivative-Attribute licensed resources on there. To find them one should use the advanced search function and select the license type. You can also find an image's license type by looking at the high-resolution preview.
Dan, thanks for your feedback.
I did say "in some cases" when highlighting the 'Attribution' license. For sure there are others which do require permission and restrict commercial use, or indeed any use.
I'm sorry if my story gave the impression that all Flickr images can be used with just a credit and without permission.
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