Caught Redhanded
Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this May 25th, 2006 8:19 pm
Gulp. After telling everyone today about the virtues of using flickr creative commons images, I got caught. I my haste last night to find a banner image for our keynote tag cloud page, I located a nice San Francisco Peaks profile via a creative commons search in Flickrlilli. I did not even register that the license was “No-Derivative” yet I cropped, stretched, and faded it to fit my design.
And Dawn noticed that this was her shared flickr image used also in her own blog site http://flagstaffdailyphoto.blogspot.com/! She nailed me! And I deserved it.
Fortunately, she is being gracious to give me permission to use the image (thanks Dawn, and you have awesome photos!) but I owe it to come clean. Okay folks, get excited about the Creative Commons license, but read the conditions (and follow them). I will be much more rigorous going forward, even in the wee hours the night before a presentation.
Mea culpa.
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May 25th, 2006 at 8:27 pm
[...] And he did exactly as he said he would. That is awesome. To me, that is what building communities is all about. You talk it out, you create dialogue, and you share things across time and space. Alan Levine is welcome to use my photography anytime - I’d just love to see what he does with it! [...]
May 25th, 2006 at 8:40 pm
Wow. Thanks, Alan. I didn’t expect this but it’s nice to hear. It was cool to see my photo up there during the session and I was mostly curious rather than upset.