I got my own email from him today. My company used to use a lot of Creative Commons images from Flickr and paid close attention to the rights. Even though all the photos that this lawyer's business partner at Photoclaim has on Flickr are now marked "all rights reserved" I was very leery that was the original rights grant. I sent an email to Flickr's help account and asked if they had a change log on rights. They emailed back right away and says "sure, what's the URL." In 15 minutes they replied and said the photographer had changed the rights four years after uploading it.
So business plan seems to have been: 1. Upload lots of images to Flickr and tell people they can use them under CC license. 2. Wait a few years. 3. Change rights. 4. Start a website about respecting photographer's rights. 5. Threaten lawsuits.
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Rights swapping
I got my own email from him today. My company used to use a lot of Creative Commons images from Flickr and paid close attention to the rights. Even though all the photos that this lawyer's business partner at Photoclaim has on Flickr are now marked "all rights reserved" I was very leery that was the original rights grant. I sent an email to Flickr's help account and asked if they had a change log on rights. They emailed back right away and says "sure, what's the URL." In 15 minutes they replied and said the photographer had changed the rights four years after uploading it.
So business plan seems to have been: 1. Upload lots of images to Flickr and tell people they can use them under CC license. 2. Wait a few years. 3. Change rights. 4. Start a website about respecting photographer's rights. 5. Threaten lawsuits.
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