Regardless everybody....USING A COPYRIGHTED WORK ON YOUR NON-COMMERCIAL WEBSITE IS NOT VIOLATION OF THE COPYRIGHT AS LONG AS PROPER CREDIT HAS BEEN GIVEN! It is the same thing as quoting someone's book in your essay for school...the book is the intellectual work of an individual, and therefore falls under the exact same copyright laws you are dealing with here.Quit being copyright Nazi's (like the RIAA) and allow people to use your images with credit. If you don't want to share, why are you on flickr? Posted 11 months ago. permalink -the photogeek
familiar -- ah "somewhere in texas" -dog under beaming sky- is by photo-geek a different user.

hmm. ok for 'review' purposes but: if the thumbnail is presented on its own with only a linkback and no commentary on the photo itself .. or if the thumbnail is purely illustrative {illustrating another creative work like a poem} the fair use argument gets watered down fairly quickly.flickr provides the option for users to place a transparent gif over top of their photos, which hinders fair use of the photo .. they should also provide the option to remove 'blog this' ..to likewise hinder the fair use of the photo.a lot of people on this site don't like fair use, and flickr should be catering to these users. Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink ) -striatic

the problem with those offering their images up to be used by anyone for any purpose it that they seem to expect everyone to do the same.I just want the CHOICE to say "no, I'd rather not have this image be republished in an uncontrolled way".Its not a black or white arguement, some will wish to share all their photos will anyone for any purpose, some won't want to share at all (in which case they shouldn't upload), and I think most people will land somewhere in between. I fully understand that once the digital data is uploaded to the internet, regardless of what licence or law is applied, its practically impossible to stop someone inappropriately republishing your photos, but why make it easy?This is after all a site in development, why not see if we can forge new understandings of copyright in the digital age instead of having the narrow minded idea that must either be criminal to share (RIAA style), or a total free-for-all where anything online is common property. Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink ) -danpat reasonable

+ later post- Some interesting reading:
10 myths about copyright - Fair Use of Copyrighted Works - Australian Copyright Act

The whole argument against the RIAA and MPAA is that they want to have a very tight grip on control of the works. Even that is within a commercial environment. The whole point of flickr is its a photo community you upload some photos I upload some photos and we can discuss/share/blog about everyone’s photos no one should be losing any money from people bloging about those photos. The only fear I can see is if someone posts a photo to a site that is inappropriate and the original author of the photo (as its linked back to flickr) then gets associated with the site when they had nothing to do with it in the first place. BUT, you can't stop that if you put anything in digital format you have to accept that is going to happen and live with it. Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink ) -blogee sounds good

You all realize that removing the BlogThis button will not stop people from blogging the photo, right?I think it could actually encourage blogging without the link yes, as people might be less inclined to figure out how to link it manually, when they can just copy/paste the URL into an IMG tag and be done with it.With BlogThis, it automatically sets up the link, so people don't have to worry about it. Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink ) -Collin Grady

[being able to disable the 'blog this' button] makes the people blogging the picture know that they are acting against the artist's wishes - and in my opinion that tells quite a lot about the blogger in question..And the bloggers that have respect towards the artist will not blog a picture that is not marked for free blogging. I dare to hope that there still are people like that :) Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink ) -m0nni today came across this situatn w photos of 'willpower' - no transparent gif in front of them, interestingly, so easy to save the pic so I considered but then did not post it ---- I guess seems good to take the absence of the 'blog this' as a request not to post pic, and respect that. ok.

I don't think that will have much of an impact at all.I think that people would assume that if someone shows their work publically on an internet website, that they don't mind people seeing it. There aren't that many people that would see much of a difference with seeing it on Flickr, or seeing it on their blog.At least if they use the "blog this" button, you can rely on attribution and a way for people to get back to your streams and see your pictures how YOU want them seen as well. Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink ) -Brock

http://www.flickr.com/forums/ideas/4650/