Our organization's website and Flickr?
Submitted by reeganbreu on Tue, 2007-03-06 03:55.
Hi,
I'm currently managing a redesign of our organization's website. On one page of our existing website, we have a number of photos documenting a capital campaign that we are undertaking to restore a heritage building and incorporate green design. As an aside, our current office is a green office...we even have composting toilets! Check it out here (though this link will become a redirect in a few weeks): http://www.cier.ca/greenoffice.html - it is truly FAB! Flickr could be an option for us, where the public links into our photo gallery from our website. Two questions about this: Would members of the public require a Flickr account to view these photos? How could we protect our photos (copyright) given that we wouldn't want others using them without permission from us?
Reegan
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A Couple Great Things About
A Couple Great Things About Flickr
With many photo sites a viewer has to have an account to view the photos, but anyone can see photos in Flickr, account or no. It is one of th reasons I love Flickr (one of many).
You can also change the type of copyright on your photos so that you can dictate how people can use them. You can apply a Creative Commons license on your photos and allow reuse if credit is given or you can not allow any reuse at all. It is very flexible.
Michelle is right, that
Michelle is right, that Flickr puts the copyright status right on the page, so there is that. It should make it clear to anyone ethical that you don't want your photos used without permission.
I'll share something that I heard at a digital photo collection conference a while back: if you are really concerned that you retain absolute control over the images, just don't put 'em on the web. If it would really be a problem if someone used them in an unauthorized way, then putting them on the web is a bad idea. There's always a way around any protections you might put on the image.
But if you just want to discourage use (with the understanding that you can't completely supress it), you can do things like only post a small-ish image that won't reproduce well in print, or include information in the description of the group saying "For permission to publish these images, please contact..."