Flickr+&+Creative+Commons

What Is It?
[|Flickr] is a web service that allows people to upload, display, and share their digital photographs. Flickr also makes it easy to connect with friends and contribute pictures to larger groups ("pools"). Free accounts can only upload 100 MB per month and only display the most recent 200 photos. "Pro" accounts cost $24.95 per year, and allow unlimited online storage and viewing of photo and video. //**Update, March 2009:** Flickr now allows free account users to upload 2 videos (90 seconds & <150MB each) per month. Both account types may upload HD video, but only Pro users may view in HD.//

Groups
Flickr's [|Groups] allow users to pool their collective resources by contributing photos of a common theme (e.g. Classic Cars, Landscapes, New Jersey). Photos can also be tagged by location.

Creative Commons
From [|CreativeCommons.org]: //Too often the debate over creative control tends to the extremes. At one pole is a vision of total control — a world in which every last use of a work is regulated and in which “all rights reserved” (and then some) is the norm. At the other end is a vision of anarchy — a world in which creators enjoy a wide range of freedom but are left vulnerable to exploitation. Balance, compromise, and moderation — once the driving forces of a copyright system that valued innovation and protection equally — have become endangered species.// //Creative Commons is working to revive them. We use private rights to create public goods: creative works set free for certain uses. Like the free software and open-source movements, our ends are cooperative and community-minded, but our means are voluntary and libertarian. We work to offer creators a best-of-both-worlds way to protect their works while encouraging certain uses of them — to declare “some rights reserved.”//

Read more about Creative Commons on their [|History page].

Advanced Flickr/CC/Licensed Search Engines & Resources
 [|CompFight] [|FlickrCC] [|FlickrStorm] [|PicApp] [|PicFindr] [|The Smithsonian Institution at Flickr] [|Creative Commons Search Engine]

Your Task

 * 1) Either **a)** create a new Powerpoint presentation or **b)** revise an existing one using pictures found on Flickr and licensed under Creative Commons.
 * 2) Existing presentations can be tweaked or completely overhauled.
 * 3) Note the different types of licenses applied to the pictures you choose. Be prepared to explain to the class what you can and can't do with the pictures you use (here's a little [|cheat sheet] for you).
 * 4) Identify **at least one** Flickr group that may be beneficial to someone in our class.
 * 5) **Bonus:** Give back a little. [|Create a Flickr account] and upload some original pictures for the benefit of others.