2008/12/24 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/24/fotonauts-opens-up-a-little-more-skip-…
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.
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geni