Pluralistic: Flickr to copyleft trolls: drop dead (01 Apr 2023)

Today’s links Flickr to copyleft trolls: drop dead: Pixsy’s predators no longer welcome. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Flickr to copyleft trolls: drop dead (permalink) Today’s a big day for users of Creative Commons images: Flickr has declared zero tolerance for copyleft trolls, predators who exploit a bug in out-of-date versions of the CC licenses in order to threaten good-faith users of CC images who make minor errors in the way they credit the images. First things first: Flickr’s new community guidelines prohibit copyleft trolling: “Failure to allow a good faith reuser the opportunity to correct errors is against the intent of the license and not in line with the values of our community, and can result in your account being removed.” https://www.flickr.com/help/guidelines If you are targeted by a copyleft troll who demands that you pay them because of minor errors in your Creative Commons attribution, here’s how to report them and get them kicked off Flickr forever: https://www.flickrhelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/4404057906068-How-to-report-Community-Guidelines-violations Now, some background. Early versions of the Creative Commons licenses have a bug, a clause that says that the permissions conferred by CC licenses “terminate automatically upon any breach” – that is, if you violate any term of the license, it ceases to be in effect: https://doctorow.medium.com/a-bug-in-early-creative-commons-licenses-has-enabled-a-new-breed-of-superpredator-5f6360713299 Core to the CC licenses is the idea of attribution. When you use a Creative Commons image, you must name the creator and link…Pluralistic: Flickr to copyleft trolls: drop dead (01 Apr 2023)

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