Creative Commons, Legal Issues and Tools
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007San Francisco Photographer Jim Goldstein has a wonderful posting out today titled Creative Commons: A Great Concept, I’ll Never Employ. Photographers today need to understand the legal landscape involved with their craft. While Creative Commons is fairly well known in certain circles, many photographers don’t really understand the details of the creative common licenses. Nor do they think about the long term ramifications of their choices. These are just some of the items that are discussed in the article.
It is also surprising how few tools photographers have that help us deal with these legal issues. We have numerous tools that allow us to be more productive working with our photography (i.e., Photoshop, Aperture, Lightroom) but why don’t we have tools that help us automate the other critical areas of our craft? The areas that are, in many ways, more critical to our long term success. The areas that we either waste time with today or don’t spend the time with that we should?
Speak up fellow photographers…
