Letting Your Flickr Photos Wander
Monday, March 24th, 2008 | Author: Tom Caswell

Flickr

I’ve been having a lot of fun with Flickr lately. I like seeing the different ways my photos get reused. From Wikipedia to Schmap.com to a women’s magazine. Just for fun, I have added a “reused” tag to each of the photos I know has been reused somewhere. Here’s what I have so far.

This is all just anecdotal, but it seems that people really started reusing my photos around the same time I changed all 1500+ of them over to an Attribution-only Creative Commons license. Although, for all I know, it could be that more and more Flickr users are enjoying the same kind of content reuse fame and glory regardless of what license they choose.

But I think it’s just as likely that it has something to do with my willingness to open up my CC license by only asking for attribution without adding a bunch of other conditions that make reusers nervous. The truth is, I really don’t care if people use my photos commercially. In fact, I think it’s kind of neat to see what happens with them. In a way, they take on a life of their own. And you never know where they might end up.

Any other Flickr users out there that have seen your photos reused?