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Re:Flickr now offers Public Domain and CC0 designations by dublinben on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @03:54PM (#9299412)
If I am uploading historical photographs that are in the public domain, I should absolutely have an easy way to mark them as such. Not everyone uses Flickr like Instagram to share the last neat thing they saw on the street.
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Re:Flickr now offers Public Domain and CC0 designations by toomuchtodo on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @04:10PM (#9299530)
Don't forget to put them in the Internet Archive!
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Re:Flickr now offers Public Domain and CC0 designations by adrusi on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @04:06PM (#9299497)
OK, I overlooked this use-case.
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Re:Flickr now offers Public Domain and CC0 designations by jessamyn on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @07:06PM (#9300495)
Yeah I think you may be focusing on the "creative art" aspect of this and less on other use cases. My mom is a retired photographer and she loves seeing other people use or repurpose (and yes even sell) some of the pictures she takes. In public libraries we want a way to share images the widest way possible and don't always have our own space to do that.

I get that you're concerned that people don't understand the public domain, but I think the response to that is more (and better) explanations about what it is and why it's important, not disallowing people access to tools that they want on a platform they use.

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Re:Flickr now offers Public Domain and CC0 designations by detaro on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @08:10PM (#9300747)
Which is a case where she should use CC0 and not the public domain marking.
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Re:Flickr now offers Public Domain and CC0 designations by erikano on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @06:28AM (#9302681)
dublinben, do you have any public domain photos of nuclear bomb test explosions?
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