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