I don't know if I really feel qualified to say whether Flickr does "enough" to promote the use of Creative Commons licensing. I found it very easy to use the licensing feature when I uploaded my first photos. I did follow the getting started steps pretty closely both in Flickr and in our class materials. I had read the information in our textbooks about Creative Commons licensing, and seeing the choices on Flickr made it seem much more comprehensible to me. I am sure that many people don't pay attention to the licensing options, but that is a "buyer beware" situation in my opinion. If you are going to post pictures to a site like Flickr, you need to be completely aware and informed about what might happen to those pictures and how you can control that. I think that some people genuinely want to contribute to the Web 2.0 atmosphere of Flickr by sharing their images in various settings. I have decided that pictures of scenery, buildings, etc. can be shared, but I won't make public images of family and friends. I would not want to find out that someone had used a picture of a friend, student, or family member for a purpose of which I would not approve. Now that my photos are also appearing on my blog through the gadgets I've used recently, I am going to be even more vigilant about the settings I apply to the pictures I upload to Flickr. Caveat emptor....let the buyer (user, in this case) beware.
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