{"id":860,"date":"2012-11-20T18:41:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T23:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/?p=860"},"modified":"2015-06-15T15:19:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T19:19:41","slug":"another-one-bites-the-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/?p=860","title":{"rendered":"Another One Bites the Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"

As reported in Mashable.com<\/a>, like Flickr yesterday, the photo site 500px is adding an option to tag your images with a Creative Commons (or as we like to call it, Creative Confusion) license. We again will say we find this a terrible option for photographers. That is unless you have a large trust fund or a multi-million dollar winning lottery ticket in your pocket, then a CC license might make some sense to you.<\/p>\n

In our opinion, using a CC license to \u201chelp spread your photo and\/or name\u201d around does nothing in our opinion, other than allow others to use your images for free. Between us we know of very, very few photographers who made a living, secured a decent account or made any real money on \u201cexposure\u201d or as CC calls it, \u201cattribution\u201d. Our landlords and our corner deli sure don\u2019t take “exposure”, compliments or attribution for a sandwich or rent in lieu of cold hard cash.<\/p>\n

But photographers seem open to this type of deal. They do in fact drink the Kool Aid. There is no deception except in the photographer’s own mind. He\/she thinks that this type of “free PR” will be great for the budding or even established career. Companies of all kinds who seek to obtain your work without paying you for it know that.<\/em> They simply feed the dreams many budding photographers already have in their head. Frankly, we think you have a better chance of getting a winning lottery ticket than making any real money via CC license. \u00a0People in the ad world get to know the names of those photographers who give their work away without charge.\u00a0Not exactly a great way to convince those who write checks that your images are worthy of payment.<\/p>\n

Instead of uploading your photos to these sites with a \u201ctake what you want\u201d license, just send us, Ed and Jack, $5, $10, $25 or more and we\u2019ll give you credit and put it on our site. \u00a0Sound silly to you? Good, it should. \u00a0Giving away your photos is a great deal for those who use your photos. But for you, buying a lottery ticket is in our opinion, a much better bet than using a CC Trojan Horse license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As reported in Mashable.com, like Flickr yesterday, the photo site 500px is adding an option to tag your images with a Creative Commons (or as we like to call it, Creative Confusion) license. We again will say we find this a terrible option for photographers. That is unless you have a large trust fund or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,15,20,6],"tags":[111,114,112,110,113,115],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-legal","category-stuff-you-should-know","category-you-cant-make-this-up","tag-500px","tag-attribution","tag-creative-commons","tag-flickr","tag-licensing","tag-trojan-horse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863,"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}