Sharing is good. These are neat examples of other folks who’ve incorporated my stuff into their stuff, thanks in part to the Creative Commons license.
got an email from someone today asking to use two of my photos (one from outward bound, the other from pilot mountain) in a calendar for the indian beer cobra, available in the UK. sweet! the calendars are going to be distributed to indian restaurants. i say it’s time for a trip to london for indian food.
though I’ve released my photo galleries online under the creative commons “no rights reserved” public domain license, i still get requests like the one below to use my photos. any such request makes me extraordinarily happy, but frustrated at the same time. i love knowing when and if people are using my photos for more than simple vicarious enjoyment, but in the middle of a deadline as described below, i wish the creative commons license and logo were commonplace enough that people knew to just go ahead and use what they need.
Dear Justin
This may sound rather strange, but I am the editor of an Islamic Finance weekly newsletter in London and I am desperately searching for a picture (today) of Kazakhstan to illustrate an article on the IDB meeting in Almaty. I found your pic of the Regent Hotel (where the meeting is being held) and wondered if you might have a high resolution image (print quality, ie 300dpi – probably an image size of about 700k-1MB) that would allow me to reproduce? I do not have much of a budget, but could pay you something for it. My press deadline is 4pm (London time – right now it is 12.00 noon) so I do need it urgently!
Hope this doesn’t sound too mad. Congratulations with your website, by the way.
Regards
Jacqueline Grosch Lobo
Editor
Islamic Finance Weekly
Update: I’ve been published! My photo of the hotel I stayed at in Almaty, Kazakhstan appears on the front page of the Islamic Finance Weekly.
the other day i “offically” released the images from my online photo gallery into the public domain. this was something i wanted to do way back, but finally felt compelled to do so after getting an email from someone in sweden who politely asked me to use one of my sky pictures.
anyway, today I got a request from someone asking to use my kazakhstan photos in an educational website called world infozone–even with my recently added public domain dedication notices (which they commented on).
anyway, they’ve put some of my pictures up already and said they may use the ones from tanzania.
how did they find me? just search google for “photos kazakhstan” and it turns out i’m ranked third.
talk about cool. (creative commons in effect!)
Finally got around to dedicating my digital photos online to the public domain!
What does this mean? Well, it means:
The Dedicator [that’s me] recognizes that, once placed in the public domain, the Work [the photos in my online gallery] may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, used, modified, built upon, or otherwise exploited by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and in any way, including by methods that have not yet been invented or conceived [without requiring attribution or requesting anyone’s permission in advance].
Even though it’s cool to receive emails (like this one from Sweden!) about people who’ve found my stuff:
Hello Justin!
I went through your homepage and I saw your beautiful pictures of skies. I really liked them and therefore I want to ask you if I can use one of the pictures for my homepage? Because I didn’t see any copyright or you writing it’s okay to use your pictures, I might think it was best to ask you first.
So what you say? If you wonder how I’m going to use it, it’s going to be a background..
I’ll be very grateful if you could answer soon.
Have a great day // Linda from Sweden…
It will be even cooler for people to be able to freely use my photos for whatever.