Flickr and Creative Commons

[gothick]

Since I licensed most of my photos on Flickr under a Creative Commons licence, I've had one used in an online news story, and just now I've received an email from a TV company (Banner Caswell) who want to use one of my photos in a forthcoming show (this one, for use in a show about colour blindness¹.)

Am I just lucky, or do the rest of you Flickr-using lot get things like this quite often, too?

¹ I don't even know how they found that particular photo. It's not as if it's tagged "traffic lights", or "colours", or whatever...

Comments

[jacint.livejournal.com]

Nope - never had a peep from anyone, although I've never licensed mine under Creative Commons. Wonder if that makes a difference to people asking?

[gothick-matt.livejournal.com]

It probably makes a difference to people finding. If I'm looking for a photo to use in something¹, I'll use Creative Commons Search (http://search.creativecommons.org/), which would find my stuff and miss yours.

¹ I use it for grabbing photos to use on websites I'm building, etc.