Almost fell out of my chair when I recognized that picture of the huge piles of money Dan used as a CC-licensed pic from Flickr. I recognize it because it's a pic that I myself have used via CC in a number of powerpoint presentations for noncommercial use. The pic is on Flickr here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/noahwesley/120499365/ It's licensed CC-attribution-noncommercial-sharealike.
I don't think Dan has any control over the brief ad that appears on the youtube video, so we can probably say he meets the noncommercial clause. And I think it's a fair bet that he would let us build on his work, so sharealike is covered.
But this brings up some questions about the attribution clause of Creative Commons. Flickr doesn't make it particularly easy to properly attribute CC pictures. I've resorted in my powerpoints to adding an ugly text box at the bottom of each CC licensed picture with the flickr username and the short URL. Although it's effective and keeps me on the right side of the law, it's horribly distracting. But technically, the flickr user in question could (although he probably won't) issue another DMCA takedown since the video doesn't effectively attribute his work (or any of the other pics, which presumably are also CC-attribution flickr shots).
It hurts my head that in this commentary video about a video about copyright that commented on another use of uncredited borrowed work, Dan uses even more uncredited work...not necessarily because he wants to, but because there is no good way to credit a lot of this stuff. People could spend a lot of time and money devising ways to better allow crediting things like flickr images in videos or powerpoints, or we could as a society get it together and accept that our copyright laws need major reform to adapt to the way we now use media. Either way, I think the way he used this image to meet the spirit of the CC license without meeting all the legal technicalities of it further reinforces the point of the video.
For the love of God, Mike! You're a writer! Learn where the &^%$! commas go in a sentence! And when you've finished doing that, knock it off with the eye-rolling tone of your pieces. I continue to read TD in spite of your writing skills, not because of them. You make being outraged about the excesses of government such a chore.
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Piles of Money
Almost fell out of my chair when I recognized that picture of the huge piles of money Dan used as a CC-licensed pic from Flickr. I recognize it because it's a pic that I myself have used via CC in a number of powerpoint presentations for noncommercial use. The pic is on Flickr here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/noahwesley/120499365/ It's licensed CC-attribution-noncommercial-sharealike.
I don't think Dan has any control over the brief ad that appears on the youtube video, so we can probably say he meets the noncommercial clause. And I think it's a fair bet that he would let us build on his work, so sharealike is covered.
But this brings up some questions about the attribution clause of Creative Commons. Flickr doesn't make it particularly easy to properly attribute CC pictures. I've resorted in my powerpoints to adding an ugly text box at the bottom of each CC licensed picture with the flickr username and the short URL. Although it's effective and keeps me on the right side of the law, it's horribly distracting. But technically, the flickr user in question could (although he probably won't) issue another DMCA takedown since the video doesn't effectively attribute his work (or any of the other pics, which presumably are also CC-attribution flickr shots).
It hurts my head that in this commentary video about a video about copyright that commented on another use of uncredited borrowed work, Dan uses even more uncredited work...not necessarily because he wants to, but because there is no good way to credit a lot of this stuff. People could spend a lot of time and money devising ways to better allow crediting things like flickr images in videos or powerpoints, or we could as a society get it together and accept that our copyright laws need major reform to adapt to the way we now use media. Either way, I think the way he used this image to meet the spirit of the CC license without meeting all the legal technicalities of it further reinforces the point of the video.
Commas
For the love of God, Mike! You're a writer! Learn where the &^%$! commas go in a sentence! And when you've finished doing that, knock it off with the eye-rolling tone of your pieces. I continue to read TD in spite of your writing skills, not because of them. You make being outraged about the excesses of government such a chore.