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still to look thru - 2 longer threads -

*Dear Flickr Mgmnt, Blog This is B***S***!!!! - http://www.flickr.com/forums/help/7398 100+ cmmts

ArTaide - ( permalink ) The issue is quite similar and there was a long drawn out discussion [forums/help/13063 ] on the private/public aspects and what copyrights entails. I summarized ... as I went along. The last summary is here: flickr.com/forums/help/13063/66758/:

What came to the fore in my sense-making process was the legal status of pictures on flickr, which happen to be by default under the all-rights-reserved-copyright © license. Choices are made available to flickr users to licence [instead] under creative commons (CC) that provides more liberty in how others can ‘play’ with [yr] images. But as it stands, by default we can say that most images here continue to be under this © licence and therefore can be viewed but not creatively used (with few exceptions). This also had the effect of revealing a contradiction between certain unbounded API uses and the law governing © images available in public (internet).


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*NO MORE 'BLOG THIS' - http://www.flickr.com/forums/help/8610

milonguero says: All, Interesting related discussion on www.digitalphotography.weblogsinc.com.
PlanetStar says: It's so funny, that even this discussion can be shared or blogged. mmmhm.

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and so I want to see flickr announcement re making it an option to disable the blog this button. where's that?
(these threads all about a year ago, a bit less. last summer ~
haven't found an anouncement ('we have decided...' with reasons why); I just find this in flickr help -faq:
------------------I'd rather people didn't blog my photos. How can I prevent that?
There's a setting in Your Account where you can choose who sees the "Blog This" button when looking at your photos.
That preference simply makes it inconvenient for people to blog your photos, and it's important to remember that if people see your photo, they can copy it and/or blog it anyway. That's where you can use privacy settings, if you'd rather this didn't happen. Hiding your photos from public view is really the best way. Top

hmmnow here we go. in Dear Flickr thread above, pointed twd the 13063 thread:
Cyron says: They're already planning on changing it, much to my annoyance. Check out the latter parts of this thread flickr.com/forums/help/13063/
in that thread Cyron objects to changes and
Stewart {staff} replies: From what I can tell, the difference boils down to:
* You think that people who don't want their photos blogged or showing up in API-based apps/search engines should have to make their private.
* I think they should be able to leave them public, and have those preferences expressed programmatically.