Everything you always wanted to know about Creative Commons licenses *but were afraid to ask was answered by Jeff Turner an ActiveRain member in a couple of ActiveRain posts from long, 
long ago.
Free Photos At The Flickr Of A Mouse
For The Love Of Creative Commons
Those with the gift of photography sometimes want to share some photos and they tell you so in how they license their content. If a photo is "All Rights Reserved" you can not use it unless the owner grants you permission.
If a photo is "Some Rights Reserved" check it out... can the photo be used commercially? Can the photo be altered? What is the owner of the photo requiring for attribution?
It is kind of like ActiveRain's Green Re-Blog symbol. Sharing. It is collaboration...it's a kinda social thing. Some people are not going to get it.
Creative Commons license - photos
You got a picture you wanna share with the world? Matt Stigliano or another blogger has some words to wrap around a photo. The blogger searches Flickr with keywords. The blogger finds your photo. The blogger follows your directions in the owner's license and attributes it to you.
Lyn Sims doesn't approve of Matt Stigliano's use of the photo in his featured post about written content: Plagiarism is not an acceptable art form. Lyn commented about the image in the post. Don't let that confuse you... Or I believe Lyn is saying Matt should not be using the photo he used. Lyn said:
"I personally wouldn't take others photos like you do and add credit. I don't think that is right either but people do it. You can get pics for free everywhere to make your post interesting."
Whether or NOT it is OK with Lyn Sims for Matt to "take" or use the photo is not one of the choices the consenting adults involved need to make when they decide that collaborating is good for them. Matt searches for a photo and says he want to use it commercially.
Jakob Fenger's (fengergold on Flickr) photo comes up.
No place to check whether Lyn Sims or anyone else is OK with Matt using it. Or if Lyn has a say in whether Jakob should share his photo.
Search for photos with a Creative Commons license:
It's between Jakob and Matt. Consenting adults!
Jakob the photographer shared the property with a Creative Commons license to facilitate more people seeing his photo. Matt and Jeff are good to go.... No need to check whether it is OK with Lyn or anyone else!
Everything you always wanted to know about Creative Commons licenses *but were afraid to ask is on the Creative Commons site. There's a link to the Creative Commons license in Jeff's first post (above.) Jeff Turner's tutorials tell you in great detail about using Flickr photos licensed with a Creative Commons license to adorn your posts. How to search. Jeff's post is HOW I learned to use a photo with Creative Commons license. Thanks Jeff!
Everything the owner of the image wants you to know... is there in the license for the photo.
Personally I like to show the license when possible... not all Flickr photos have the html to do so... but many do. First link below is is to the Flickr members photostream (not the actual photo) second is to the license for the actual photo. I think it may help the fussbudgets assure themself I am not "taking" the image.
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