On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]>wrote:

> Matthew Roth, 23/05/2013 17:31:
>
>>     So, what's the future of CC on Flickr?
>>     
>> http://www.flickr.com/__**creativecommons/<http://www.flickr.com/__creativecommons/>
>>
>>     
>> <http://www.flickr.com/**creativecommons/<http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/>>
>> shows only 260M CC images:
>>     there were already 220M in 2011 if I read news correctly; only 60M
>>     are free. 75 % of the times I ask a user to put an image under
>>     cc-by-sa they choose -nc-nd because "it was the first option" (and
>>     some of course "what, isn't Wikipedia non-commercial?!).
>>     Is this the price to pay to Instagram, Tumblr and Facebook?
>>
>>
>> There are already lots of problems with Facebook (and various other
>> social networks) and free licenses. See this analysis here:
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/**wiki/Legal_and_Community_**
>> Advocacy/CC-BY-SA_on_Facebook<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/CC-BY-SA_on_Facebook>
>>
>
> Yes but there's a difference between that and forcing good sources of free
> knowledge like Flickr to drop this aspect


agreed :)


> , which Facebook never had. :) (If this is what's happening.)
> Ah, of course they also removed the option to have unlimited uploads: only
> current pro users can keep it, for the others there are only expensive
> storage plans.
>
> Nemo
>



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