Re: [videoblogging] Flickr & Creative Commons (also video-sharing sites & Creative Commons)

2008-09-01 Thread Rupert
You're right, of course. I was assuming that that was understood. If you want to stop someone, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is a fairly flawed piece of legislation, but all the big corporate bastards are using it to scare companies like YouTube into deleting videos and accounts in r

Re: [videoblogging] Flickr & Creative Commons (also video-sharing sites & Creative Commons)

2008-08-30 Thread Adam Quirk
> > If All Rights Reserved, then he can't use your photo without your > permission, whatever he says. Not to split hairs with Mr. Howe, but he definitely *can* use your photo without your permission, just not legally. Anything you put on The Internet can be used without your permission. Nature of

Re: [videoblogging] Flickr & Creative Commons (also video-sharing sites & Creative Commons)

2008-08-30 Thread Pat Cook
Hi everyone: First offWe are NOT lawyers. As such, you are really asking the wrong people here. Therefore, you're not likely to get the desired answer (IF we can even help at all). Personally, I think you would be best posing this question on forums where lawyers tend to hang out for inf

Re: [videoblogging] Flickr & Creative Commons (also video-sharing sites & Creative Commons)

2008-08-30 Thread B Yen
On Aug 29, 2008, at 10:53 PM, Rupert wrote: > It could help a bit if you told us what picture, and where it's being > used, and even gave a link to the forum where he's taunting you. These characters are so lo-life, I don't want to trouble you. There have been incidents of violence (even profe

Re: [videoblogging] Flickr & Creative Commons (also video-sharing sites & Creative Commons)

2008-08-29 Thread Rupert
It could help a bit if you told us what picture, and where it's being used, and even gave a link to the forum where he's taunting you. Flickr allows you to set permissions on your photos. I believe it's All Rights Reserved by default, and that you can manually set various levels of Creative

[videoblogging] Flickr & Creative Commons (also video-sharing sites & Creative Commons)

2008-08-29 Thread B Yen
I have a Flickr account, & have been uploading pictures. No image watermark like "COPYRIGHT ©2008 my name". I want to confirm that people can't use my photos without permission. Can someone summarize what my rights are? Some clown deliberately used my photo & is taunting me on a forum t