FlickrCC uses the Flickr API to search for CC licensed images and for images with a license permitting derivative use provides basic image editing operations (e.g., cropping, adding text) online, without downloading the image and starting a paint program. Last month we noted a tool that searches Flickr for CC licensed images based on color,…

Looking 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.

Use your photographic skills to show your support for Creative Commons! Take a cool, creative picture of your favorite CC swag (t-shirts, buttons, stickers, etc. — all available from the Support the Commons store) and upload it to your Flickr account. Two winners will have their photos used on Creative Commons’ informational postcards, which will…

Creative Commons Launches Photo Contest on Flickr Winners’ Photos to Be Featured on CC Postcards; Winners Can Also Choose a CC Board Member to Record a Personalized Outgoing Voicemail Message San Francisco, CA — November 8, 2006 Today, Creative Commons announced the launch of the first CC Swag Photo Contest on Flickr. The contest is…

Today, Creative Commons launched the first CC Swag Photo Contest on Flickr to promote our Annual Fundraising Campaign. The contest offers a chance for people to win prizes for creatively photographing their CC Swag (t-shirts, buttons, stickers, etc. — all available from the Support the Commons store) and showing their support for CC during this…

Mark Glaser of the PBS site Media Shift wrote a great article about the use and adoption of CC licenses with in the Flickr community. Glaser used a CC licensed Flickr photo by photographer Kris Krug for a blog post that he was writing about Mark Cuban. Krug gave Glasner a ‘virtual high-five’ for doing…

Here is a cool Flickr find. Jordyn Meredith , an art student in Baltimore, has licensed her digital dendrology collection under a CC Attribution, Share-Alike license. These are absolutely gorgeous digital microscope shots of tree cross-sections. My favorite is Lilac Chastetree. From her description: “After identifying the type of tree to which the branch belongs,…

A new release of web-based office suite (word processor, spreadsheet, presentation) ThinkFree Online adds the ability for users to mark their documents as CC licensed in ThinkFree’s DocExchange sharing portal. From ThinkFree’s announcement: “We’re particularly excited to see Creative Commons features integrated throughout ThinkFree Online’s workflow. Creators using ThinkFree Office can offer certain rights to…

Last month we noted that Flickr added the same CC search options to its advanced search that Yahoo! web search offers (Google’s advanced search has differently phrased but equivalent functionality). Now we’ve added Flickr search to our find page, from which you can now search for CC-licensed content indexed by Google and Yahoo! as well…

Flickr rolled out a bunch of new features today, among them adding a Creative Commons-specific search to the Flickr advanced search page, fulfilling a new year’s resolution. Now you can search the approximately 12.7 million CC-licensed photos on Flickr across all CC licenses or only those that allow commercial use or derivative works, just as…