Fabrica New Years Card: A Minor Success for Flickr and the Creative Commons
Just before Christmas I got a phone call from Fabrica (sorry I can't remember the persons name if you're reading this) asking for permission to use a photograph of mine that they'd found on Flickr for their new years card.
All of the photos I've put on Flickr are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license which means that
You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor.
It also means that they didn't have to ask for my permission but they did any which was nice.
I was chuffed that they might use one of my pics for the card but I wasn't holding my breath.
Well, today a batch of cards arrived and guess what–they did use my picture.
Here's the front:
and here's the back, with a credit to me. Yay.
I think this is a mini success story for Flickr and the Creative Commons licensing system and more so for my ego.
Fabrica's currently closed for the winter but there are plenty of images relating to Fabrica on Flickr. Maybe you can use one for you card, or brochure, or poster or whatever.