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“Flick” This Controversy

It’s certainly been a couple of bad days for Flickr and Yahoo!. First on 30 January 2007, Flickr made a couple of very unpopular announcements. Here’s the full-text of those announcements.
30th January, 2007
A pair of items for your attention:
1. In our ongoing efforts to Make Flickr Better®, we’re introducing two additional limits: the [...]

Creative Commons Works!

Boing Boing recently pointed out a music video created by Jonathan Coulton. Mr. Coulton went to Flickr and found a bunch of images with Creative Common licenses. He then created a touching music video based on those images. This is the sort of thing that could not have been done without Creative [...]

Dvorak vs. Creative Commons

In a recent opinion piece on PCMag.com, Mr. Dvorak shows off his stunning lack of comprehension of the benefits to Creative Commons Licensing.
Will someone explain to me the benefits of a trendy system developed by Professor Lawrence Lessig of Stanford?
CCL is a simple way for content creators to let everybody know what they’ll allow others [...]

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