Re:Misuse of Creative Commons-licensed photo leads to public...
by tombrossman on Saturday July 16, 2016 @02:59PM
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> Looking at Flickr, it looks like the CC-licensed collection is about 100x larger than the PD-licensed collection
That's likely because CC-licensing has been available on Flickr since 2008 [0] and they only recently started offering the Public Domain license as an option in 2015 [1].
It's good to see them finally offer more license types but they are so late to the game that many people like me just self-published or posted to Wikimedia Commons under the PD license instead, for all those years. I'm sure my images get fewer views than they would on Flickr but I can't be bothered to switch now.
[0] https://www.flickr.com/commons [1] http://blog.flickr.net/en/2015/03/30/flickr-now-offers-publi...
Re:Misuse of Creative Commons-licensed photo leads to public...
by wpietri on Saturday July 16, 2016 @05:19PM
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Excellent point; I had missed that. The 100x number isn't indicative of a free choice. On the other hand, that they took 7 years to add the feature still gives some sense of the relative demand.
Creating and maintaining any commons requires rules and work. CC evangelists do want people to use their work, but they also want to create a situation where lots of people use lots of other people's work, which means getting creators to be comfortable offering their creations. CC does a great job of capturing and expressing the common concerns of creators, which makes more work available. But that only works in the long run if those concerns are truly honored.
So I don't think they're being hypocrites at all. You may prefer to release your stuff into the public domain. (Funnily, you don't link your PD-shared works in your profile, so you must not want people to use your work freely either.) But others prefer differently. Looking at Flickr, it looks like the CC-licensed collection is about 100x larger than the PD-licensed collection:
https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons