Virgin Australia uses CC images
This week Virgin Moblie Australia released a new advertising campaign called Are you with us or what? which is using CC Attribution 2.0 images off Flickr. Each image in the campaign presents a caption,...
View ArticleThe Virgin case: why CC is (and should always be) just a copyright licence
There’s been a lot of talk/confusion/opinions around the case lodged against the Creative Commons international corporation, Virgin Mobile Australia and its American parent company, Virgin Mobile USA....
View Articleelection day 4 :: my face in the fray
each day i sit down and have a quick look over the latest entries in the iGoogle ‘News From Your Seat’ webapp to get a feel for what’s been happening that day in the election. so i’m scrolling through...
View ArticleTalking CC :: ‘Giving it Away’ doesn’t mean you can’t make money
This is a presentation I gave to Masters students at QUT yesterday. Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008Audience: Masters students at Queensland University of TechnologyPresenter: Elliott Bledsoe,...
View ArticleCC-licensed image used in Iron Man, but not under the licence
I just read on the Creative Commons blog that a photo published on Flickr by amateur photographer and web developer Jeremy Keith was used in Marvel-blockbuster Iron Man (2008, Paramount Pictures). On...
View ArticleTwo more Australian institutions join Flickr: The Commons
This blog is of course about Creative Commons but occasionally I am prone to wander. At least talking about the public domain, like I am going to do right now, is related. In particular, I want to talk...
View ArticleInternet says, “nopa” to SOPA
To help bring wider attention to the potential ramifications of SOPA and PIPA, an impressive list of internet heavyweights went black yesterday (United States time). While concern over the Bills has...
View ArticleStorage not design will return Flickr to number 1
Overnight (Australian time) Yahoo! announced a design revamp of their tried and true photo sharing platform, Flickr. One of the oldest photo social networks—and certainly one of the most well known—the...
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