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Creative Commons Licensing
Under copyright laws in the United States, you can??™t reuse other people??™s pictures by default
except under the ???fair use??? rule. If someone uses a Creative Commons (CC) license for a picture,
the owner is saying, ???Hey, you can use my picture under looser restrictions without having to
ask me for permission.??? You can see a license attached to any given picture.
Flickr makes it easy for users to associate CC licenses with their photos. You can browse
and search for photos by CC license here:
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
You can look at pictures by specific license here:
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/{cc-license}/
where {cc-license} is currently one of the following:
??? by-2.0
??? by-nd-2.0
??? by-nc-nd-2.0
??? by-nc-2.0
??? by-nc-sa-2.0
??? by-sa-2.0
Consult the following to get an understanding of the various licenses:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Cameras
Flickr enables users to view photos by the brand of cameras used to take them:
http://www.flickr.com/cameras/
To get at all the brands of cameras, see the following:
http://www.flickr.com/cameras/brands/
You can look at pictures by the specific camera type here:
http://www.flickr.com/cameras/{camera-company}/{camera-model}/
For example:
http://www.flickr.com/cameras/canon/
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