Introduction
A picture is worth a thousand words and can enliven any blog entry or website. But the wrong picture, one that violates copyrights, may be worth thousands of more words. From a lawyer.
The goal of this scavenger hunt is to educate web designers and bloggers on how to responsibly tap into one of the world's largest creative commons (Flickr).
Instructions
Use the referenced links and included images to answer the first ten questions below. To fill in your answers, please download the worksheet.
After you've completed the questions, click on the answer key below to score your own work and make sure you've got the right idea(s).
Then move on to the final challenge, where you'll leverage your new found knowledge to find and post appropriate Creative Commons images for two different real-life scenarios. Happy hunting!
Understanding Creative Commons
Answers to the following questions can be found at: Creative Commons Licenses.
- Flickr is not the only place to find “open” content. Name three other websites where one can find creative commons licensed material such as images, music and video.
- Creative commons licenses are made available in a format that non-lawyer types can actually understand. What is the “human readable” format known as?
- How many different Creative Commons license types are there?
- Which Creative Commons license grants the widest range of usage?
- Which Creative Commons license is the most restrictive?
- If all rights have been waived – either as a result of conscious content creator decision or the requisite passage of time – then a work is referred to as being where?
- In the context of Creative Commons licenses, what does the equals sign inside a circle represent? Provide an example of what this means to a web designer or blogger.
Scavenger Hunt Themed Photos
Examples of responsibly obtained scavenger hunt themed Flickr images:
CC Licensing In Action
These questions relate to images on this page as well as other Flickr photos. Follow Flickr link of the particular picture, and then click on the licensing link beneath the "Taken on..." date.
- Which of the five images shown on this page (if any) could I alter to make into a new image? How do you know?
- My blog’s doing great and I have decided to start accepting ads (& selling autographs!) soon. Which of the five photos (if any) will I be able to still use? Why?
- Check out these two other scavenger hunt photos: Link 1 and Link 2 . Which one could I use in my school website? Why so?
Check your answers!
Final Challenge: Hunting the Commons
Using Flickr advanced search with appropriate Creative Commons settings, find and download images for the usage scenarios below and e-mail them to the respective DropEvent gallery. Check gallery images before posting. No dupes!
In your e-mail title (not the body), provide your last name followed by the Flickr user and Creative Commons license type. Example: PENNELLA (Matthew Romack, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0)
Scenario 1:
An image you can use in an ad for your commercial graffitti removal service
Scenario 2:
An image you can use in a personal blog post discussing "super powers"
Hunt Completed!
Now go forth and forevermore source your images in the good graces of copyright law.
