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PictureSandbox.com
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== Examples ==
- search by any 1 of the 6 CC license types using a select list -- the default is Attribution
 
  
[[Image:http://picturesandbox.com/images/CC-select-list.gif]]
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* Please add your example, screenshot, mockup, etc here :)
 
 
As of June 29, Flickr has temporarily suspended the API key pending further clarifications of CC-related topics. Such as the following:
 
 
 
regarding Creative Commons topics raised in this Flickr Forum thread (750+
 
posts in 4 days)
 
http://flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/44325/
 
 
 
A few salient Creative Commons topics excerpted from the thread:
 
 
 
- since Flickr does not allow photo-specific CC version specification (just
 
1 of the 6 license-types, not version), how does a Flickr user specify a
 
version they want to apply to a specific photo; how does a user prevent
 
Flickr from automatically upgrading the CC version without their consent?
 
 
 
- whether PictureSandbox is a licensee of the photo in the case where the
 
photo appears as a thumbnail in search results presented on the
 
PictureSandbox website (which uses the Flickr API to return such results),
 
even if just for a moment
 
 
 
- whether PictureSandbox overlaying a watermark in search results (which
 
says (CC) image owner's name) constitutes a "derivative work" and therefore
 
"use" of the photo
 
 
 
- whether PictureSandbox is the licensee in the case where a user uses the
 
"phreetings" (photo + greeting) interface on the PictureSandbox website (
 
http://www.picturesandbox.com/card ) to create a phreeting and send it to a
 
friend, or whether the user is the licensee of the photo
 
 
 
related: whether PictureSandbox's "phreetings" constitutes commercial use if
 
the business is commercial but the phreetings feature carries no ads, does
 
not drive traffic (since it is a private, person-to-person communication).
 
 
 
- whether PictureSandbox is responsible for policing the contents of a
 
CC-licensed image to ensure it does not contain someone else's copyrighted
 
work (i.e. someone stealing someone else's photo and uploading to Flickr,
 
and applying a CC license to it)
 
 
 
- can PictureSandbox witness/notarize a Creative Commons license between
 
image owner (the licensor) and the user (the Licensee) when the image owner
 
is not made aware of this?
 
 
 
related: if PictureSandbox just witnesses the license between the licensor
 
and licensee, is PictureSandbox a party to the license?
 
  
 
== TODO ==
 
== TODO ==
  
 
* feature requests for cc/nutch
 
* feature requests for cc/nutch

Latest revision as of 01:24, 3 July 2007


You'd have to work at a commercial search engine to tackle the previous challenge. However, an individual or small team could build a search engine exclusively for Creative Commons-licensed content, much as several have been built exclusively for searching blogs.

Implementations

Examples

  • Please add your example, screenshot, mockup, etc here :)

TODO

  • feature requests for cc/nutch