On Jul 7, 2007, at 9:08 PM, Ayelie wrote:
Hmm, good points... also, what about an option that allows releasing into the public domain? Right now they don't have that option, it's a CC license or All Rights Reserved. In many cases (such as if we were to upload some of our FPs to Flickr) we would run into issues with having to say they are under a CC license when in fact they are PD or other.
In most jurisdictions it is simply not possible to really "release into the public domain". It is a complicated and sad situation.
In terms of a release, the best one can do generally is CC BY.
But you are right that some photos actually are public domain, and perhaps Flickr should have a way for people to flag that. But since most people have no clue that you can't really release things into the public domain in most jurisdictions, this would probably be a net LOSS for free culture, because people would start incorrectly flagged photos as "PD" in cases where they WISH they could do that, but can't, and so if they understood it would choose CC BY.
--Jimbo