I know that the real issue here is that most Flickr users have absolutely no idea how to either find or change their licenses, however two pragmatic technical pointers: 1. The flickrapi gives you back the licence based on a simple query using the photo_id. I recently used this to double check licences using a custom Python script during a mass upload. For Commons, it would be not too hard to build friendly web-based simple tools to help users check licences and even mass change their own licences in their Flickr albums to be "Commons compatible" with a simple couple of button presses (using oauth). The well designed Upload Wizard can do the mass upload of their chosen albums to Commons. 2. I use a bookmarklet to quickly find images that can be used on Commons: javascript:(function(){if("".length==0){window.location="htt… Here is an example search for "cookies" using the bookmarklet: https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=cookies&l=commderiv&ss=2&ct=6&… Fae -- faewik(a)gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae Personal and confidential, please do not circulate or re-quote.

Not sure if this still works (disclosure: I work with Commons Machinery) but we had a similar conversation regarding Flickr and some people on twitter found this useful: http://commonsmachinery.se/2014/02/copyrdf-addon-updates-oembed-site-rules/ On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi