Share your experience with the Creative Commons!
I was talking to n8 and Julie about our experiences with the Creative Commons today, and I’d love to hear what experiences others have had with CC media. How have you used it? How have your own works been used? Do you find people abusing your CC licensed material? How does proper and improper use of your own work make you feel? Share your stories!
Here’s mine: I encounter the CC almost exclusively through Flickr, where I’ve used CC photos in presentations and UX work (mostly personas). My CC photos have been solicited for use in a pest management magazine, used in violation of the CC license on a commercial site without permission (but with attribution; I granted permission after I checked out the site and decided the intentions were good), and I just discovered some of my photos have made it into the Tree of Life site, appropriately (with attribution, not for commercial use), but totally unbeknownst to me! A pleasant surprise.
August 29th, 2007 at 8:51 am
Folks on wikipedia threaten to remove your media uploads if they are not properly licensed and I had to CC-by some of my uploads. In the past, Wikipedia used GFDL but CC seems to be emerging as the favorite. There ends my experience with CC.