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Help Tell Your Organization's Story with Flickr

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Flickr gives nonprofits and libraries an easy way to store and share these powerful images. And with new interactive features and a new Android mobile app, there are now even more ways to share Flickr images. Don't have a Flickr account? New Ways to Shar e. Need Inspiration? NorCal GSP Rescue. Photos : NorCal GSP Rescue.

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Best Practices Using Creatives Commons License

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Cambodia4kids Creative Commons License. This post titled " To My Readers: Avoiding Plagiarism, Understanding the Creative Commons License " made some great points about giving attribution in blog posts beyond a link. See my example in the first sentence above.

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What happens when you set your content free with creative commons licensing?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I use the " BY Attribution " creative commons license. I've used this license. I still sometimes see rather blank expressions when I ask about turning to CC licensed resources to find photos. No, but is more likely to happen is that people will use the work, use the license honestly, and improve the work.

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Museums and Flickr

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If you click through to the license, it says "all rights reserved." " So, I thought I'd use a screen capture of the photo inside flickr instead, but wasn't sure whether I could. Here's the description of how they used flickr for the exhibition. ve found ourselves spending a lot of time in Flickr.

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Spotted: Another Hold The Sign Meme on Flickr

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American Rights At Work Flickr Stream. I've been collecting examples of the "hold a sign" meme in flickr and by way of Erin Stojan of RE-AMP I found this example from the American Rights at Work. The Flickr stream is here. I asked permission and also suggested they switch the license.

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How to license mixed media, without a law degree

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Beth's Flickr Stream. s licensing and that of the sound bite? When deciding where to indicate licensing information, it is again a case of ???more CC takes a three-pronged approach to this: 1) Include credit information in the media itself, for example credits shown at the end of a video or, as in the case of Magnatune , a ???

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Amy Gahran's Advice for Finding Free To Use Flickr Photos

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She tells you how to do the search, gives you an example, and shares some pitfalls to avoid. If the photo is of, say, a TV screen showing a newscast or a newspaper page showing a staff photo, then you still might be liable for copyright violation despite the terms of the CC license listed on Flickr or elsewhere.

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