Share Your Flickr Photos Please

Alright you! Here’s the thing. I’m looking at all these great photos from the PodCamp Toronto Flickr Photo Stream, and I’m finding some GREAT pictures of people I love (including me). When I go to the landing page for the photo, I’m finding that 90% of you have your snaps set to “All Rights Reserved.”

Technically, this means: “look, but don’t touch.”

You want your photos to get around. You want to share them like social currency. You want people saying, “Did you see the photo of Blevis and Moon that Bob Goyetche shot?” And everyone will say, Yeah!

Here’s How you do it

1. Log into Flickr

2. Go to YOUR ACCOUNT (under You, Your Account is near the bottom)
3. Click the PRIVACY AND PERMISSIONS tab to the right of the pink Personal Information words.
4. Go down to Defaults for New Photos:
   

5. Under WHAT LICENSE WILL YOUR PHOTOS HAVE, click edit
6. I set mine to Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share-Alike License
7. Then click SET DEFAULT LICENSE.

The message will come back THE DEFAULT LICENSE FOR YOUR PHOTOS HAS BEEN UPDATED.

This means sharing, and sharing is good

Now, to properly USE other people’s photos, you must give attribution back to the photographer. The best way for doing that is to give a link back to the person’s flickr landing page. Here’s how you do that:

1. In this example (where I illegally lift Mark Blevis’s shot of Whitney Hoffman), hover your mouse over the Mark Blevis in the “Uploaded by Mark Blevis” over to the right.
2. Right click (or CTRL Click on Mac) on the photo and select Copy Link Location.
3. This is the address you want to use for attribution.
4. Under your blog post of the picture, do a little html link back to that, saying something like “Photo by Mark Blevis,” with the Mark Blevis part linking back to that Flickr address.

Make sense?

Now, for everyone who attended PodCamp Toronto, and I mean Jay Moonah, Mark Blevis, Mitch Joel, Bob Goyetche, and several others, please consider freeing up your photos to the larger collective. Please?

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