Week 5 - Photo Sharing

Welcome to Week 5 of Ezra Edition

Photo-sharing and image-creation (Flickr, Picasa, etc.)

A picture says a thousand words - imagine what you could say in pictures about the library!
Photo sharing in Plain English

Archives is using Picasa which does similar things

Online photosharing can open a can of worms when it comes to copyright and intellectual property. Many people attach a a Creative Commons license to their photos, videos, blog posts and other born digital creations. This license specifies what other people are allowed to do with the content(s)/creation(s).

There are 7 permutations of the Creative Commons - or CC - licenses:

• Attribution : CC BY View License Deed
• Attribution-ShareAlike :  CC BY-SA View License Deed
• Attribution-NonCommercial : CC BY-NC View License Deed
• Attribution-NoDerivs : CC BY-ND  View License Deed
• Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike : CC BY-NC-SA  View License Deed
• Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs : CC BY-NC-ND View License Deed
• Public Domain (or "All Rights Granted") : CC0 CC0 tool

These licenses are based in US Copyright Laws and are generally observed by legitimate re-users of other people's content. I generally use CC: BY-NC-SA for my pictures and CC: BY-SA for my blogging and micro-blogging content.

Several of my friends in the computer have their photos re-used all over the place because their choice of CC license is conducive to remixing and recycling internet content. I also know a few people who CC0 (make public domain) anything they publish on the internet, so their ideas and content will get wide distribution.

Suggested Activities:

• Explore information about Creative Commons
• What do you think about CC licenses? Are they worthwhile? Why/Why not?
• Check out Aaron's flickr photostream 
• What stories in pictures is he telling?
• Compare to pictures tagged with aaronthelibrarian
• What stories in pictures are being told about him?
• Check out the Libraries and Librarians flickr Group
• What are these libraries saying with their pictures?
• University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
• Utah State Library
• UGA Library
• Search flickr for interesting pictures
• Look for any licensing restrictions (such as CC: BY, NC, etc.)
• Check out the Lehman Library Archives images available on Picasa
• How does the Picasa layout compare with the flickr layout? Which do you prefer?