I can respond to this because I have many years' experience with Flickr. The person who sets up a Flickr account *chooses* the license agreement. It is not Creative Commons by default. I use Creative Commons for my personal photos because I don't mind if people publish my photos as long as they give proper attribution and link back to my site. It does not require the user to contact me for permission as long as all the conditions are met. That is what Creative Commons means. It doesn't mean anyone can use your photo any way they like. The conditions of Creative Commons are stated very clearly on the Flickr site.
For the Arachne site, I recommend that Clay choose the "All Rights Reserved" option. That is the most restrictive. It doesn't physically prevent people from downloading and using it without your permission (and if you don't want anyone anywhere to use or to see your photo, don't upload it to the web -- simple as that). It does prevent people from legally using your photo for jigsaw puzzles, etc., unless they contact you and you give them explicit permission to use your photo. Hope that makes things clearer. Avital On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Jane Partridge <[email protected]> wrote: > A lot of the members on the Facebook groups are new lacemakers who may not > know about Arachne, or non-English speakers who can join in with > conversations because of the ease of translation tools. > > Interestingly Jacquie Tinch forwarded to me a sliding block type picture > puzzle last night (not lace related) which used a photo from Flickr, stating > that the image wasn't their copyright but they'd used it under a Creative > Commons License detailed on Flickr. That to me says that maybe anyone can > make use of photos uploaded to the site and puts me off using it. I > understood that if someone sends you a link to their photos on Facebook you > don't have to be a Facebook member to access it. > Sent from my iPhone -- Blog: http://apinnick.wordpress.com Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spindexr/sets - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
