#creative-commons — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #creative-commons, aggregated by home.social.
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Si alguien pregunta, la radio estaba poniendo esto:
Paradise Nation — My Sweet Feeling
Fuente:
https://www.jamendo.com/track/1557778
Licencia:
CC BY-NC-ND
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/La antena apunta aquí:
https://radio.tuiter.rocks -
RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@maxpool/117128107757895678
#IANAL , but from what I understand it is well-established in both German and American law that purely automated processes - and #AI / #LLM definitely qualify as such - cannot generate new copyrighted material. There _has_ to be human-created creative input.
The same applies to digital scans of #PublicDomain works - this is an automated process, and cannot turn a public domain work into something copyrighted. You actually have to do something _creative_ with the scan.
This is fairly important to my own work, since I translate German public domain texts into English, using digital scans of the texts as a base. Since I _am_ adding creative work to the originals, my translations _do_ have copyright.
Sure, I am immediately releasing them under a #CreativeCommons Zero license, which effectively makes them the equivalent of public domain again. But that's my _choice_ instead of something automatic.
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Creative Commons: Open Heritage in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. “CHIs [Cultural Heritage Institutions] understand that, as a representation of who we are, heritage helps define our shared humanity and that providing access to heritage generates numerous benefits for society. As such, CHIs, as stewards of trustworthy information imbued within knowledge and culture, have a crucial role to […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/21/creative-commons-open-heritage-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence/ -
How to setup a Netlabel ?
Acid42 tells us what to do !
https://acid42.com/2010/09/how-to-start-and-run-a-netlabel/ -
Flickr’s mobile apps have become a mess; its messaging is one too
For years, Flickr has been the site of choice for people who love photography and hate drastic platform changes. Since SmugMug’s 2018 rescue of that property from Yahoo’s erratic stewardship, the user experience at Flickr has become pleasingly boring compared to Instagram, with no radical feature shifts dictated by corporate overlords irate over the rise of Snapchat and TikTok.
But recently, somebody in Flickr HQ decided it was time to shake up Flickr’s Android and iOS/iPadOS apps–and then apparently hired developers who had never used Flickr. Because how else could you ship a photo-sharing app stripped of photo-editing features?
I promptly sent in a complaint about the erasure of editing tools and got a reply less than two hours later assuring me that “our team is working to add it back in a future update.”
But that was only the start of problems with this new release.
The copy on my own phone had also had its automatic photo upload shut off. When I switched “Auto-Uploadr” back on, it busied itself with backing up every image available on my device–with no setting to limit uploads to my camera roll.
The new apps were worse even for viewing other people’s photos: Turning your phone sideways no longer displayed the image in landscape mode. Reddit’s r/flickr forum lit up with complaints from people discovering these and other problems with this downgrade of an upgrade.
About a month ago, Flickr clicked the app-store equivalent of a “revert” button and replaced the new apps with previous versions–first on iOS, then a few days later on Android. My iPad mini’s copy of Flickr got reversed automatically through an App Store update, while on my Pixel 9 Pro I had to uninstall the current app and then install it anew (except not, you know, “new”) from the Play Store.
I sent a query to Flickr’s PR agency MWW, identifying myself both as a journalist and as a longtime Flickr Pro subscriber, and asked what was going on. Grace Goddard, an account executive there, sent a statement confirming the u-turn and suggesting more measured updates.
“Based on feedback from the community, Flickr made the decision to roll back the recent updates while working to restore and improve the experience across both platforms,” the statement read in part. “While Flickr doesn’t have a public roadmap for the mobile apps to share at this time, the team plans to continue making iterative, user-tested changes to the app experience going forward.”
That is far more than what Flickr has said on its own public channels. The latest post on its blog, published Wednesday, only has a casual mention of “a few small design updates here and there on the desk top view and in the iOS app that you’ll start seeing.”
Flickr’s Threads account has no posts about the app imbroglio, its X account has been silent since July of 2024, it’s yet to set up shop on Bluesky at all, and the only Flickr-app news I’ve seen on its subreddit has come from other Redditors even through a verified Flickr employee is one of that forum’s moderators.
(As much as I can whine about annoying behavior by PR people, this episode shows how a company can benefit from following the advice of comms professionals.)
I’m not looking for a lot out of Flickr, by far the oldest social-media platform I still use. I don’t need it to add AI tools to edit or create images (although this site does desperately need to modernize its account-security options). Its sharing features could use some polish, but overall its groups function fine for presenting pictures to people with shared interests (like, say, the D.C. area’s built environment).
Flickr already does one thing very well: By supporting Creative Commons licenses, It lets photographers require payment for commercial applications of their work–which has generated a little extra income for me a few times–but allow free non-commercial reuse.
To steal a phrase from my friend Jeff Carlson, I just want “a high-quality anti-Instagram.” Except Jeff decided he wasn’t using Flickr enough to justify the (rising) cost of a Pro subscription and instead switched to Glass, a newer and more design-focused platform. I would rather not make such a drastic platform change myself, but it would help if Flickr’s management could show a little more focus.
#AutoUploadr #comms #CreativeCommons #Flickr #FlickrAndroid #FlickrIOS #GlassPhoto #indie #indieweb #photoSharing #UI #UX -
Actually serious post: We need a Creative Commons equivalent for the personality right of people in pictures. Let me explain:
Copyright protects rights of the person who created the picture (usually the photographer, there are some very limited circumstances where you may be able to argue that it is someone else, but let’s ignore those for now). If you hold the copyright that (mostly) means that you get to decide who is allowed to produce and share copies of that work, the default being “nobody but you and, once you’re dead, the people who inherit that right”.
A license is now a permission towards others to do the same, possibly with restrictions notably often only to specific people. You can sell this license for money, gift it, basically do whatever you want.
A free license (as defined by Richard Stallman and the FSF) is now one that gives everyone rather substantial rights, including the rights to use, modify, share, and share modifications to everyone. This is what we commonly see for non-commercial software and is usually not a great fit for other creative works.
For (among others) pieces of art we also have licenses that allow sharing, the most popular set being #CreativeCommons licenses where you specify what other people are allowed to do with your works, CC-BY-ND for example forbids changes while CC-BY-NC requires that derivative works are placed under the same license; both require attribution. (I will note that I recommend against -NC (no commercial) CC licenses, because the question of what commercial use is, is extremely under-specified.)
This works overal pretty well, is reasonably easy to understand and solves a lot of the questions around copyright.
BUT:
It turns out that people in the EU have personality rights (unlike in the US), which includes (often) the right to decide whether and how images of them may be published. This restricts what other people can do with pictures of you, even if they hold the copyright on those images, so copyright licenses are not applicable here!
Now, it must be noted that these personality rights are not unlimited. See the first attached picture: There are people in it, but the picture is not of them, so their personality right has to take a step back, because otherwise we would often not be able to take any pictures in public. Similarly pictures of events are often permissible.
On the other extreme, portraits are often not permissible by default and require the explicit permission of the depicted person, so something like the third picture would usually not be fine without permission.
“Permission”, or one might say “consent” is of course the keyword: If everyone in the image is fine with a certain use, than you can do that thing without concern.
The problem is the “with a certain use”. I have several pictures here of people who even consented to have them posted by me to Fedi, but I ended up taking one that Senna took of me as an example, because no one explicitly consented to being that example, even though I expect that all of them would probably have done so.
And of course that also depends on the picture: Is it an amazing looking portrait where you are looking great and the background is just pretty, or does it show you in a compromising position and is the kind of thing that I will only post followers-only to my alt-account? This is not a per-person thing, but a per-person-per-image-per-use-case thing.
And I’d like to have an established well understood and well defined standard, like CC, where I can ask people under which, if any, they want to place it, and be certain afterwards that my use-case is fine.
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How I write my (CC) stories and novels https://www.crimperbooks.co.uk/about/process/
Why I publish them under CC https://www.crimperbooks.co.uk/about/sharing/
#creativeCommons #IndieAuthor #WritingProcess #SharingStories
