<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/plakboek/406766576/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/161/406766576_36d4d1c1bb_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);">
</a> <br> <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"> </span><div align="center"><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/plakboek/406766576/">Something to measure</a></span>
<br><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"> </span></div></div>Last year, a chap asked for my permission to use one of my lunar photographs in a book. Last week , the German <a href="http://www.wbgu.de/wbgu_home_engl.html">
WBGU </a>secretary kindly asked for permission to use using one of my photographs for the front cover of a climate change report. You can view the <a href="http://www.wbgu.de/Images/jg2007_titel_kurz_engl.jpg">report front page montage with my photograph
</a>. The picture is the one that I took of a rain gauge at PepperGreen farm. You can view a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/plakboek/406766576/">copy of my original photograph here</a>. <br><br>I recall when
Flikr introduced a photograph classification system last year that
allowed photograph owners to attach a Creative Commons license to their
work. The one that I have been using is<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en_GB">Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike</a>. The VITTA website resource bank has something similar for resources posted online.
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<br>I now use the Creative Commons license feature with most of the
photographs and teacher resources that I post and share online. It is
easy to apply and lets me mark my creative work with the freedoms that
I want it to carry. <br><br>
What a good idea.<br><br>-- <br>Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College<br><a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</a><br><br>"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead