Thursday, December 22, 2005
TIME: The Best Photos of the Year 2005
Amazingly, Time Magazine have chosen the image that Adam Stacey took of his experience on the london underground during the attack here in London on the 7th of July 2005 as one of the best images from 2005….
I published the image on adams behalf you see here for the first time, and through Creative Commons licensing, the image went around the world in minutes, becoming an iconic image relating to the event.
I firmly believe that this photo would never have had the impact it *needed* to have had it not been protected by Creative Commons licensing, nor would it have been able to reach so many people so quickly and effectively had old media structures such as AP/Gamma etc been allowed to sell it to media outlets.
What this means for so called “citizen journalism” I don’t know, but it’s an important example, and one which will hopefully show the efficacy of Creative Commons licensing as a real world alternative to the inherent restrictions ordinary copyright emplaces.
There is one thing I am really concerned about though; see on the image it says “Adam Stacey/Gamma” as the attributed source? What the hell is Gamma even doing there!? I’m contacting both Time and Gamma at the moment to see what is going on, if it turns out that Gamma took the fact that it was licensed under CC including commercial use (to allow for papers to print the image etc), I am going to be incredibly angry, as I’m sure will the folks at Creative Commons.
I published the image on adams behalf you see here for the first time, and through Creative Commons licensing, the image went around the world in minutes, becoming an iconic image relating to the event.
I firmly believe that this photo would never have had the impact it *needed* to have had it not been protected by Creative Commons licensing, nor would it have been able to reach so many people so quickly and effectively had old media structures such as AP/Gamma etc been allowed to sell it to media outlets.
What this means for so called “citizen journalism” I don’t know, but it’s an important example, and one which will hopefully show the efficacy of Creative Commons licensing as a real world alternative to the inherent restrictions ordinary copyright emplaces.
There is one thing I am really concerned about though; see on the image it says “Adam Stacey/Gamma” as the attributed source? What the hell is Gamma even doing there!? I’m contacting both Time and Gamma at the moment to see what is going on, if it turns out that Gamma took the fact that it was licensed under CC including commercial use (to allow for papers to print the image etc), I am going to be incredibly angry, as I’m sure will the folks at Creative Commons.
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