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If you go to Flickr Advanced Search and scroll to the bottom you can check a box to search photos that have common licenses.
How are you supposed to credit them?
Do you need to contact the person who took the picture and ask permission?
Can you just add a clickable picture that links to the Flickr page that the picture comes from?
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This is an example on how to credit a Flickr photo
http://www.squidoo.com/penguincafeorchestra
Look under Still Life At The Penguin Cafe
In this case, I contacted the person and gave me permission to show the photo.
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Yes, making your photo linked to their photostream or that particular photo's page at Flickr is usually okay.
I tend to ALSO contact the owner for two reasons
1. to make sure they actually do want that CC license on their photo and are pleased with my use of it.
2. to get them to visit! :-) I have had on rare occasion a photographer blog that "This lens used my photo!" That was a backlink and a couple of hits.
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Jimmie wrote:
2. to get them to visit! :-) I have had on rare occasion a photographer blog that "This lens used my photo!" That was a backlink and a couple of hits.
Sneaky ![]()
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In another thread, GreekGeek posted some code she uses for crediting photos from Flickr with a CC license:
<p style="text-align: right; font-size: 8pt; font-style: italic;">Photo Credit: <a href="link to photo's page">Name</a> on Flickr, Creative Commons.</p>
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Thank you all for your help.
As I have been understanding better and better how to credit photos I have started asking permission for using their links and photos and often get tremendious comments back with, as you say Jimmie, backlinks and visits. I have even had some people like my lenses so much that they started Twittering about them or asking their friends to check out my lenses.
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You can also learn more about this at http://www.squidoo.com/cc-flickr
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