icommons

log in
new to icommons.org? register

            
type a tag | tag cloud
home · articles · how flickr is helping create awareness about creative commons in india

Click here for more info on
the iSummit '08
meu painel
publish/create
editing queue
voting queue
icommons blog

Altemark on flickr.com New upgrades to icommons.org

We have some exciting new upgrades to icommons.org to report! The latest updates to the site include:
- The ability to upload vertical pictures along with horizontal pictures to the site. We've also set the minimum picture size from 600 to 420 pixels, and you can upload both jpgs and pngs.
- Additions to our list of embedded videos that can be supported on the site - now video... more

iCommons.org taking some down time
An update from Heather Ford: Action Plans for Openness
iSummit site launched and summit registration now open
+ all icommons blog posts
 
How Flickr is Helping Create Awareness About Creative Commons in India
1
Kiruba Shankar · Chennai (India) · Sep 16th, 2007 4:04 pm · 34 votes · 9 comments
 
Flickr to the aid of CC, Northern Star, CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
Flickr to the aid of CC, by Northern Star
In India, Creative Commons is still an unknown entity. Even amongst the tech savvy crowd, CC is something they have heard of but never gone deep enough to understand, let alone use it in any of their work.

In an informal survey that I did with a bunch of people, an interesting fact came out in the open. Most of the folks came to know that is such a thing as Creative Commons existed only after seeing it being used in Flickr.

Flickr is big in usage amongst bloggers here in India and it has played a key role in introducing CC to many of them.

Amit Agarwal, one of India's leading bloggers, has written a simple guide in 'Dummies' style taking Flickr as an example to explain CC.

A recommended read for someone who is very new to CC.

tags: chennai india education flickr cc


  comments rss add a comment  
 
Hey Kiruba

Thanks for pointing to this guide. I was thinking that what would also be cool is a guide on how to effectively find CC licensed photos on Flickr - I think that this may be confusing to some... :) Maybe this could be developed into a nice 'how to' guide...

Just some thoughts... :)
Daniela Faris · Johannesburg (South Africa) · Sep 14th, 2007 5:46 pm
your call: is this comment useful?
your take: useful lame
You are right, Dan. A nice how-to guide on 'How to Find CC Licenced Photos' would definitely be useful and this can be a starting point.
Kiruba Shankar · Chennai (India) · Sep 15th, 2007 3:03 am
your call: is this comment useful?
your take: useful lame
Alphonse The Dummies style guide was useful. Do you know of a Dummies style video that explains creative commons?
Alphonse (United States) · Sep 17th, 2007 3:46 am
your call: is this comment useful?
your take: useful lame
I searched YouTube and found this nice 8 minute video of Larry Lessig explaining Creative Commons. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWxyx5iYdvI

Here's another educational short video from Creative Commons team explaining what the CC license is all about. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BESbnMJg9M
Kiruba Shankar · Chennai (India) · Sep 17th, 2007 3:54 am
your call: is this comment useful?
your take: useful lame
and oh, a really cool short advertisement that very neatly explains what CC is. Its probably the closest to the dummys style you were asking for. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKQmj56MLVg
Kiruba Shankar · Chennai (India) · Sep 17th, 2007 3:58 am
your call: is this comment useful?
your take: useful lame
re: finding CC content on Flickr, they make this really hard, as the option is hidden inside 'advanced' options, which are not available from every view of the system, and furthermore isn't sticky: for every search, you have to go back to that hidden CC search, instead of having it as a default... supportive infrastructure counts!
Alek Tarkowski · Warszawa (Poland) · Sep 17th, 2007 9:28 pm
your call: is this comment useful?
your take: useful lame
Whenever I need to find CC content of Flickr, I find it much easier to use the CC search function built into Mozilla Firefox, or just http://search.creativecommons.org - you just need to choose Flickr as the site you want to search. Because, like Alek says, looking from within Flickr is a bit of a nightmare.
Rebecca Kahn, iCommons reporter (South Africa) · Sep 17th, 2007 11:01 pm
your call: is this comment useful?
your take: useful lame
Bec, thanks for pointing out to CC search function in Firefox. I've started to use it more often after learning about it.
Kiruba Shankar · Chennai (India) · Sep 27th, 2007 3:10 am
your call: is this comment useful?
your take: useful lame
Alex, I agree with you that finding CC content is difficult in flickr. What I'm talking about is about people hearing about CC. Very very few people actively use CC in India but atleast a few people know that something called CC exists thank to Flickr.
Kiruba Shankar · Chennai (India) · Sep 27th, 2007 3:12 am
your call: is this comment useful?
your take: useful lame
 


  add a comment: you must be logged on in order to comment. please log in or register at iCommons.org and and your comments right after.