So many photographers think that once you slap an image up on Flickr, your copyright is gone, gone, gone.   True.  Sort of.  Sometimes.  Kinda.

When you get messy with the Flickr TOS the way John Spaulding did on his blog, you discover that you don’t have to surrender your copyright when you hit the upload button.  It all depends whether you have set your account to give you full copyright of your image.  If you do nothing, you upload under the creative common license, and your images are pluckable. They’re fair game.

In his blog piece, John explains how anyone can advance search for creative common license images on Flickr, and use ‘em at will.  Even yours.   You’re warned.

via: Internet Marketing with John Spaulding

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