Even the New York Times is running with the story of US teen Alison Chang whose image was used by Virgin Australia in an advertising campaign via a Creative Commons licensed Flickr photo. (Lawsuits have ensued.)
“… social networking website Facebook has been warned that it could face a consumer fraud charge for failing to live up to claims that youngsters there are safer from sexual predators than at most sites and that it promptly responds to concerns …”
That Flickr thing is the main example of why I will NEVER use a CC licence. Creative Commons was never meant to be legal – it was supposed to be just a way for people to say “Sure, you can use my work, but don’t take advantage of the fact that I’m letting you”. It was only a matter of time before the big corps did exactly that.
Ren, I have to say I have a little more faith in Creative Commons licenses than you! CC is meant to be legal and is supposed to try and carve out some middle ground between full copyright and the public domain. The biggests issues occur when people don’t think about what type of CC – or normal copyright – they actually apply to their creative work!
That Flickr thing is the main example of why I will NEVER use a CC licence. Creative Commons was never meant to be legal – it was supposed to be just a way for people to say “Sure, you can use my work, but don’t take advantage of the fact that I’m letting you”. It was only a matter of time before the big corps did exactly that.
Ren, I have to say I have a little more faith in Creative Commons licenses than you! CC is meant to be legal and is supposed to try and carve out some middle ground between full copyright and the public domain. The biggests issues occur when people don’t think about what type of CC – or normal copyright – they actually apply to their creative work!