Re:A Business Insider retrospective
by danso on Friday September 23, 2011 @01:25AM
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I put CC on virtually all of my Flickr photos. I still get asked permission to reprint them (and once was even paid). It doesn't seem that I get much of an increase in traffic, though....though I've never really tested it by setting the whole collection to non-CC and back. I just don't think Flickr's "interestingness" algorithm would make CC-photos rise higher, as typically the most visually striking photos (also, the photos of models) will not be CC-licensed.
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Re:A Business Insider retrospective
by haribilalic on Friday September 23, 2011 @02:37AM
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Flickr lets you browse and search CC licensed photos. They also let you do the same for the Commons (public photos, such as those from The Library of Congress) and Getty Images.
I figure if someone's searching for a photo to use on their website, particularly a commercial website, they're not going to browse or search all of Flickr and hope the photos they like are CC licensed — they'll go straight to CC licensed content and pick from those.
Right...I don't know how frequent of a use-case that is. I know I certainly take advantage of it for my non-profit company. But first of all, I think the percentage of people who want to copy a photo as opposed to just looking/commenting on is relatively small. And the small slice of users who do want to copy a photo, a good percentage of them either don't care about honoring CC or feel that they don't need to worry about it (i.e. they want a photo just to use as their wallpaper).
I do this. I use http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-2.0/ to search for CC licensed photos.
It's pretty useful when I'm looking for pictures to illustrate a blog post, or to put on my slides for a presentation (I prefer pictures to text).