Flickrcash

Det her er en god idé som jeg personlig kunne have brugt et par gange. De efterhånden mange millioner billeder på fotodelings-sitet Flickr der er markeret med Creative Commons-underbetingelsen "non commercial" (altså at besøgende på din flickrprofil GERNE må downloade pågældende billeder og bruge dem, som de vil, så længe de ikke bruger dem kommercielt) kan nu tilsynelandende finde sammen med eventuelt interesserede, der har kommerciel interesse. Det sker via FlickrCash, et såkaldt mashup (sammensætning af to forskellige tjenester) af Creative Commons og Flickr som lader dig forhandle en individuel licens.

Jeg synes tjenesten åbner nogle interessante perspektiver for at private og såkaldte prosumers kan handle direkte med f.eks. medieorganisationer uden en masse unødige retsager og juristers mellemkomst. Måske.

Snip snip fra Creative Commons' blog:

I created FlickrCash because I found many really beautiful photos on Flickr but could not use them for “commercial” purposes like design work for clients, because there was no way to document I had a license to use it. FlickrCash is BOTH a search/find interface to more quickly find images on Flickr, and also a way to document that you have a license to use a specific image.

Sample of image search (currently only searches Flickr repository):
http://flickrcash.com/?k=flowers

Sample of archived license, available for inspection at any time:
http://flickrcash.com/license/27i8d5sf

With this publicly archived license the image buyer can definitively prove they have the right to use a specific image for a specific purpose — so they can use it for client design work. Both image owner and image buyer are named signatories to the agreement, and an official date/time stamp is obtained from the NIST Atomic Clock to document the exact time the license was executed.

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