What’s he on about?
Posted on July 19, 2005
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It is hard to understand how John C. Dvorak can misrepresent the Creative Commons so comprehensively…come on, think man, it isn’t rocket science.
Delivr provides a great example of the benefits of the Creative Commons…if all photos on Flickr were under traditional Copyright then Delivr would not exist. It could not exist because you can’t use any copyrighted images in this kind of way without permission…
But thanks to the the Creative Commons, Delivr is possible, and can use images from Flickr available under a more flexible license. In simple terms, the Creative Commons licenses incorporate varying levels of permission.
The way the Creative Commons is set up the license holder can be very specific about how others can re-use their work. For example, they can choose to allow re-use for commercial purposes, which means if Delivr ever started charging to send postcards (it never will of course), then we could narrow the search to include only those images available for commercial purposes. Or license holders can choose to make their work available for use by others, but with the exception of derivative works. And infact Delivr does filter out images from Flickr with this No-Derivs license because the digital postcards the site generates are effectively derivatives of the original images.
What’s so hard to understand?
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