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
- Log into Flickr
- Go to YOUR ACCOUNT (under You, Your Account is near the bottom)
- Click the PRIVACY AND PERMISSIONS tab to the right of the pink Personal Information words.
- Go down to Defaults for New Photos:
- Under WHAT LICENSE WILL YOUR PHOTOS HAVE, click edit
- I set mine to Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share-Alike License
- 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:
- 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.
- Right click (or CTRL Click on Mac) on the photo and select Copy Link Location.
- This is the address you want to use for attribution.
- 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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Comments
Yes! I remember thinking that in September after Boston… I want to post all these pictures on facebook! But I can’t cause no one will share!
Thanks for reminding everybody Chris. :)
Chris,
Thanks for the tip, had no idea.
Great to meet you this weekend. Hope to run into someday on my infrequent trips to the NE.
Best,
I’ve made a new feature suggestion to flickr that they supply HTML code for any photo that is marked with a Creative Commons license.
Right now, they supply HTML code that you can copy and paste for your own photos, but not for others.
They should.
They are looking into it.
Thanks for the reminder, just switched it. I was just starting to upload and tag my pics they should be up in a while!
Wow thanks for the reminder Chris!
Changed it as well. All our pics were added to the Podcamp Toronto group.
Hope you all enjoy them!
You know when sometimes someone uses your activist photographs against something which in fact is the very cause you’re advocating for ? After the umpteenth time that happened, I default I switched everything back to plain old (c) rather than (cc). I often photoblog politically charged events here in Toronto, hence photos without caption sometimes end up with captions I’d rather not have accompanying my pix.
Result being a decision to licence other than (c) on a flickr set by flickr set basis and often on a photo by photo basis.
which I’ve just done to my podcamptoronto pics. :-)
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Chris!
Believe me when I tell you that I made the change this morning before I read this post - because you told everyone to do it yesterday during your presentation.
You’re good to go!
Mark