I’ve been asked a few times for permission to reuse a flickr photo of mine for another publication. My CC license allows anyone to use my photos in a non-commercial way as long as they attribute the photo to me. If you want to use it for a commercial purpose, just ask, I’ll probably say o.k. and not ask for any money. But, what happens when a photo is used in a commercial magazine, without permission, and without attribution. Lawrence Lessig has the story of one such flickr photo and Autoweek magazine.
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Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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