I license my photos under Creative Commons.  Why?  Because crowdsourcing is a beautiful thing, and it’s interesting to see where my photos get used, and what sorts of stories get associated with it.

The most bizarre to date, is definitely Bride Dies of Heart Disease on Her Wedding Day.

Creative Commons

According to the Creative Commons, the law makes it virtually impossible to waive the copyright automatically bestowed on creators.  CC0 is a universal waiver that may be used by anyone wishing to permanently surrender the copyright and database rights they may have in a work.

Personal Genome Project, is one of the first adopters of CCo. Read more about CC0 at the CC blogpost “Expanding the Public Domain: Part Zero“.

So, that begs the question – what are the terms of any Creative Commons license? Is it life + 75 years like copyright?

UPDATE from @plagiarismtoday: CC Licenses, if they aren’t changed, last as long as copyright as it is a copyright license, not a change to copyright law.

Exciting news! From the folks at Creative Commons comes an announcement that you can now CC-license your tweets via TweetCC!

It’s simple, just send one of the following tweets to @tweetcc, depending on which CC license you’d like to use (click on the link for an instant tweet):

CC Zero Waiver: @tweetcc: I dedicate my tweets to The Commons by waiving all copyrights under CC Zero Waiver http://icnhz.com/cc-0

Attribution: @tweetcc: I license tweets under CC Attribution http://icnhz.com/cc-by

Attribution Share Alike: @tweetcc: I license tweets under CC Attribution Share Alike http://icnhz.com/cc-by-sa

Attribution, No Derivatives: @tweetcc: I license tweets under CC Attribution No Derivatives http://icnhz.com/cc-by-nd

Attribution Non-Commercial: @tweetcc: I license tweets under CC Attribution Non-Commercial http://icnhz.com/cc-by-nc

Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike: @tweetcc: I license tweets under CC Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike http://icnhz.com/cc-by-nc-sa

Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives: @tweetcc: I license tweets under CC Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives http://icnhz.com/cc-by-nc-nd

Even cooler is they don’t ask for your password:

We don’t ask for your Twitter login or password as this password anti-pattern practice teaches people how to be phished. Don’t scatter your passwords around like chicken feed.

Join the founders of TweetCC – @malarkey and @briansuda – and some 1,300 other tweeters who have already licensed their tweets!

I got an e-mail a short while back to use one of the black lab photo below for a travel magazine highlighting pet-friendly destinations in Orange County too.

The top Google Images Searches that yield traffic to my photos might be telling me that I missed some calling around red and white weddings (???):

• red and white wedding pictures
• wedding bouquet
• bride
• red and white wedding dress
• red and white bridal dresses
• photos of rome
• picture of japan on flickr
• moscow state
• old town prague
• getty exhibit
• free download vector graphics (this ones makes no sense to me!)

The all-time best, but completely wrong use of one of my photos still goes to “Bride dies of heart disease on her wedding day“, which uses a photo of a good friend on her wedding day in Laguna Beach, CA.

Here the catalogue of remixed photos, as referenced in Wikimedia Commons to date:

Lessig was on The Cobert Report this week and did a great interview!

And since then, there have been a few remixes, including this one.  (Lessig is tracking other remixes on his blog entry about this.)

Good times.