Copyright

July 7, 2008 in Random crap | 1 comment

Interesting take on copyright and usage

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    J.C. Hutchins on July 9, 2008 at 6:37 pm

    Hey, Jim. As you probably know, the recent activity of my company, Myxer.com, was one of the catalysts for Thomas’ blog post — which referenced Jim Goldstein’s masterful article. As Jim points out in his post, we immediately disabled our Flickr integration when we learned our service was distributing photos beyond the Creative Commons license.

    Myk Willis, Myxer’s CEO, recently wrote a post on his personal blog about our Flickr integration, and the creative and philosophical intent powering it. It can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/5bws7f

    I encourage you and your audience to read it, if only to learn more about the integration, to understand that Myxer did not sell any of the photos accessed via the Flickr API, and to see what Myxer has learned from this experience. As Myk writes in his post, these are “trying times for a massive number of creative people whose footing has been destabilized in this era of instant, zero-cost distribution of digital content on the internet.”

    We’re all finding our footing here, and we appreciate the insight you and other bloggers are bringing to the conversation. If you or your readers need any further information about Myxer or future iterations of our Flickr integration, please feel free to contact me personally.

    Best wishes,

    –J.C. Hutchins
    Social Media Marketing Manager, Myxer.com
    jc.hutchins@myxer.com