Noncommercial means Noncommercial
1 Mar, 2006
Like others on Flickr, I got a message this morning from a service called Schmap - a downloadable city guidebook sort of a thing. Apparently 8 of my greater Los Angeles photos (including the one above) had been 'short-listed' for inclusion in their upcoming guide.
That all seemed very interesting (and admittedly flattering,) but I was puzzled as to why my photos had been selected in the first place; I post my photos to Flickr under the Creative Commons "Attribution, Non-commercial, Share-Alike" license. As far as I can tell, Schmap's use of my photos would be decidedly commercial.
The point has been argued that it's not *really* commercial if Schmap makes its guides freely downloadable and strictly ad-supported, but Adam Fields makes the more important point that Schmap is being quite proprietary about their own content, and that is counter to the entire spirit of Creative Commons licensing.
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I think they are contacting
I think they are contacting us to get an additional license to use the work. They are not using your work under the Creative Commons license (whether it's non-commercial or sharealike or whatever).