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A variation discussion Creative Commons licensing, but also goes into photo sharing in general:
http://danheller.blogspot.com/2008/01/gaming-creative-commons-for-profit.html
Regardless off the image’s copyright settings on Flickr, if people leave the “Blog This!” button on their images (removable in privacy settings on Flickr) then you’re allowing online writers/bloggers free reign to use your images.
The upshot? You get an auto link-back when the feature is used.
When in doubt, don’t publicly post high-res versions of your illustrations/photography, and don’t post your work in 300 phacking Flickr groups. It just turns into a circle jerking love fest with everyone putting dumb “You’re My Flickr Hero!” trophies in the comments anyways, which while it may give you a bang, doesn’t really further your work in any way, shape, or form.
You can be sure any photos I consider for stock either doesn’t touch flickr, or only really small version that aren’t publicly searchable are made available.
Still, it makes you think. Nothing and no one is safe any more. Not really.
I use public domain photos all the time – I don’t take much of my own. I try to pay attention to the rules, but thinking about this topic this morning has made me think about being extra careful. I just imagine how I’d feel if I let a photo go into the public domain, and someone didn’t follow my stipulations – I’d be upset!