2008/12/24 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/24/fotonauts-opens-up-a-little-more-skip-t...
The site is at http://www.fotonauts.com/ . Everything I could see is CC-licensed, including -NC licenses, so tread carefully when copying images.
Their tagline appears to be "The Wikipedia of images." I left a message on the TechCrunch story pointing out that the "Wikipedia of images" is Commons ...
- d.
The comparison of commons to Getty however is probably not very helpful. For the average web user commons is competing with Google images (where we tend not to rank very high). For businesses they seem to prefer paid for images under terms that are fairly agreed. That leaves the free content community and the seriously active part of that isn't very big.
A free content license is not what makes wikipedia popular and it will not be what makes commons popular.