Matthew Roth, 23/05/2013 17:31:
So, what's the future of CC on Flickr? http://www.flickr.com/__creativecommons/ <http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/> shows only 260M CC images: there were already 220M in 2011 if I read news correctly; only 60M are free. 75 % of the times I ask a user to put an image under cc-by-sa they choose -nc-nd because "it was the first option" (and some of course "what, isn't Wikipedia non-commercial?!). Is this the price to pay to Instagram, Tumblr and Facebook?There are already lots of problems with Facebook (and various other social networks) and free licenses. See this analysis here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/CC-BY-SA_on_Face...
Yes but there's a difference between that and forcing good sources of free knowledge like Flickr to drop this aspect, which Facebook never had. :) (If this is what's happening.) Ah, of course they also removed the option to have unlimited uploads: only current pro users can keep it, for the others there are only expensive storage plans.
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