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Ford encourages fans with CC BY photos
by mike Uncategorized postCory Doctorow posts an interesting story about Ford car fans whose fan creations were pulled from CafePress, supposedly due to trademark. Ford backed its fans. That shouldn’t be unusual, but good for Ford for being not stupidsmart about the matter. And Ford has further demonstrated that it values and respects people who love Ford cars…
A new way to search for CC licensed photos on Flickr
by melissa Uncategorized postLooking for a new way to search for CC licensed photos? We’ve just been informed about a tool that searches Flickr for CC licensed content based on their color hue and saturation. Now you can easily puruse the millions of CC licensed photos based on all your color palette needs.
CC Mainland China Launch Photos
by mike Uncategorized postCreative Commons licenses ported to Mainland China were launched last week. Photos from the launch event are on Flickr with the ccchina tag. A post in Chinese is here. Photo by Shi Zhao licensed under CC BY.
OPEN source helps Flickr share photos
by press-robot Press post… Flickr’s founder Stewart Butterfield said in an interview with Creative Commons that the company believes in and wants to support free culture.from NewsForge (press release) – USA
NGO photos
by matt Uncategorized postNGO Photos is a great new resource site (in Finnish) acting as a large free photograph repository for NGOs. Ramin Miraftabi, the person behind NGO Photos, explains the site here (in English) and why he set it up.
Browsing and searching for licensed photos at Flickr
by matt Uncategorized postFlickr is a great online photo sharing app that allows you to tag all your photos with a Creative Commons license. We’ve blogged about it in the past and interviewed the founder as well. Today they launched an entire area of their site devoted to showing off all the photos within their system that are…
Underbunny's photos
by matt Uncategorized postThe photos of “underbunny” show an artful, somber view of the world and offer a glimpse into what it’s like to work at a mortuary. This photo in particular is quite powerful, telling the story of a life lived for 102 years. All the photos are available under a Creative Commons license, to boot.
A few select photos from Software Livre
by neeru Uncategorized postAs mentioned earlier on the blog, Creative Commons took part in 5th Annual Software Livre Conference in Porto Alegre earlier this month. Here are some select photos from the event: The IBM booth. The pillar says “the future is open” in Portuguese: A conference sign: The Minster of Culture’s booth, displaying both of our stickers:…
Raymond vanderWoning's Photos
by matt Uncategorized postThis week we’re featuring the photography of Raymond A. vanderWoning. His photos feature subjects from flowers and bugs to signs and people and his about page carries a thoughtful piece on how and why he licenses all his photos. A hobbyist photographer at heart, Raymond’s closing statement gets to the heart of it all: Information…
CC Licenses in China at Shanghai Photos
by matt Uncategorized postShanghaiphotos.com is a site devoted to the city of Shanghai run by an avid hobbyist photographer. It also happens to be the first website based in China (that we know of) to use Creative Commons licenses for its content.