Found this while puttering around School Library Journal website today:
(Truly) Free Photos
By Lauren Barack -- School Library Journal, 6/1/2008
Finding photos to use off the Web can be a dicey affair. Enter Free Use Photos
(http://flickr.com/groups/freeuse), a new Flickr collective, in which any image can
be used for free, in any way, and without attribution. Two library professionals,
Tony Tallent, director of youth and outreach services at the Public Library of
Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, and his colleague Lori Reed, training specialist
for the library staff, cooked up the idea based on a simple concept. Members upload
images, which users can download and reproduce without having to secure permission.
“We wanted people to not jump through hoops,” says Reed.
The site’s attracted 90 members thus far, who have contributed more than 508
images, from close ups of artfully arranged sushi to whales swimming off the coast
of Gloucester, MA. Eager users include one schoolteacher who plans to use the
images for school assignments, says Tallent. Despite widespread use of the Creative
Commons license, which enables creators to share their original work for use by
others, Reed says, “I think people still don’t understand the way Creative Commons
works or how to apply it.”
“This fueled the need and desire for a quick way to get to photos,” says Tallent.
“[Free Use Photos] is true social networking, peer to peer.”
Shaunterria Owens, Library Assistant
Del Rosa Elementary
3395 Mountain Avenue
San Bernardino, CA
909.881.8160
"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished
with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
- Thomas Carlyle
shaunterria.owens@sbcusd.com
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