Flickr is a popular website where you can store, sort, search and share your photos and videos online. It is very easy to organize photos into albums. These photos can be tagged by location, the people in the photo and/or date and time for future retrieval. Flickr is also an excellent source when looking for pictures to add to an existing slideshow or presentation. However, this is where Creative Commons comes into play. In order to explain Creative Commons, I need to back up and explain some netiquette (internet etiquette). In need of a photo for a project? With our Macbooks, it is very easy to capture a photo using Open Apple, shift 4. However, we've just taken this image without permission from the owner. While easy to do, it is not the right thing to do. If we composed a poem, we wouldn't want others to take it and use it as if it was theirs. It is the same with photography. But wait! What if I don't mind others using my photo, as long as they give me credit or promise not to use it to make money? This is where Creative Commons comes into play. Creative Commons has many different levels of copyright licenses. When you search for an image on Flickr to for personal or school use, be aware of these symbols and what they mean. It is important that students understand what these symbols mean as well. The different levels of copyright licenses are as follows:
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work - and derivative works based upon it - but only if they give you credit.
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work - and derivative works based upon it - but for noncommercial purposes only.
You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.
You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.
You can also learn more about these by going directly to the Creative Commons website.
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