Flipping off Flickr

I sure hope Flickr takes this “leech” to court and gets a lot of money out of his thieving hide to pay the photographers he has stolen from.

Flickr would certainly be seen as a hero for doing so, but since they don’t control the copyright/creative commons license, they have no financial interest to do so… It’s definitely sad.

There may be more layers to this. Consider the fact that many people on FLickr select a Creative Commons rights setting that allows the use – and even use with modification – of their work. Consumerist (one of my every-single-day reads) is probably working inside the rules WRT the photograher. (Assuming thay are sticking to the CC rights images.) But what is not in question is the terms for use by FLickr, which states that if you use a hosted image from Flickr on an outside site, the image has to link back to the photo’s Flickr page, which Popken does not do.