{"id":918,"date":"2014-05-09T15:54:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T15:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harwoodben.com\/?p=918"},"modified":"2016-10-21T16:17:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T16:17:38","slug":"a-true-digital-story-about-openness-and-sharing-with-creative-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harwoodben.com\/?p=918","title":{"rendered":"A True Digital Story about Openness and Sharing with Creative Commons Licensing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday,\u00a0on my commute\u00a0home from work, I noticed a dark, bilious\u00a0plume of smoke on the horizon some three miles south of Glens Falls, NY while driving north from Saratoga Springs on Interstate 87, the Northway.<\/a>\u00a0This is the main artery between New York City and Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec, Canada. As I approached my apartment, I observed a huge structure fire burning wildly out of control a few blocks away on Sherman Avenue. Thankfully, no one perished in the fire which burned until 5 AM the next morning. There was a miraculous\u00a0rescue and there were injuries though nothing life threatening… I’d never been so moved in a painfully public moment that was about to get many people’s attention in Glens Falls and beyond. In a crisis moment, courageous responders risk their lives to extinguish a fire while bystanders look on, some very upset, others angry, children and adults holding hands and crying… It’s a moment of chaos like I’d never experienced before. And here I was with an iPhone taking a few pictures and hoping for the best. Twenty-five people lost\u00a0everything\u00a0last night in Glens Falls, mostly folks on the lower end of the socio economic scale.\u00a0I\u00a0currently do not have renter\u2019s insurance so\u00a0I\u2019m going to set that up next week.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/nvyR5U<\/p>\n

I took a few images with my iPhone 5s and uploaded them to my Flickr account<\/a>\u00a0(update: since Yahoo was hacked <\/a>and not as transparent as it should be, I’ve temporarily diasbled all but one image, until a migration to another site) and shared on various\u00a0social\u00a0media platforms.\u00a0What ensued after\u00a0I shared the pics was something very real. One of my images\u00a0found its way onto a few local and regional news websites.\u00a0Within fifteen minutes,\u00a0I was contacted by numerous media sources in the Albany area like CBS,<\/a> ABC <\/a>etc (10\/19\/16 update: CBS link decay.. page is now gone. ABC page still active as of today, see screenshot below in case it goes away) who issued BREAKING NEWS alerts on Twitter and on their websites, all asking for permission to use my images – which\u00a0I happily granted as a courtesy, at no cost to the publisher, as long as I was given credit. What this really means is: thank you for asking my permission first and above all for sharing my work with others both correctly and within the parameters of\u00a0Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
\nCC BY-NC-SA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/nxAYHS<\/p>\n

Someone from the Associated Press, a photo editor in New York City, asked me to call him which\u00a0I did. He sent me a disclaimer form via personal email stating that\u00a0I granted AP full rights to use my work for syndication for their subscribers.\u00a0You can see one of my images, retweeted many times over, and that is now archived in the AP\u00a0repository.<\/a>\u00a0(update 10\/19\/16 AP page is gone, see screenshot below) But interestingly enough, if someone would like to purchase my image, they have to contact me first per AP. To be honest, it\u2019s not for sale, it\u2019s a gift to the WWW. I believe in creative commons licensing<\/a> on my\u00a0personal\u00a0work though I\u2019m not a huge stickler about it until now perhaps. Alan Levine, Alec Couros, Bryan Alexander, Jim Groom, Audrey Watters, Larry Lessig and countless others have made CC rise to the top my absolute need-to-understand-and-share-with-others awareness list.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/nzoyMr<\/p>\n

As you can see here, North Country Public Radio in Canton, NY has used my image in a story,<\/a> now syndicated by the Associated Press, without needing to ask me for permission. \u00a0All I ask for\u00a0regarding my personal work and creativity, is that in a sharing economy where we approach the creation and distribution of materials online,\u00a0I receive credit and\u00a0attribution for my work. NCPR left a comment on my Flickr page: “Thanks for making this Creative Commons. I have used it to illustrate an AP story about the fire.” They did not even need to ask me first. That’s the power and simplicity of sharing this way from anywhere, but especially from a mobile device.<\/p>\n

\"gffirenews10albaby\"<\/p>\n

The wrong way to do it: News 10 Albany appropriation of my intellectual property without attribution. If their page <\/a>is no longer available, see pic above.<\/p>\n

\"gffireap\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The right way to do it: Screenshot of my waived copyright with correct attribution by the AP as per my CC license and as signed in agreement with them emailed to me while still on site at the fire. Basically, the agreement states I will not sue them and I’m giving my IP away at no cost in exchange for mandatory credit (AP webpage pic above no longer live).<\/p>\n

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Yesterday,\u00a0on my commute\u00a0home from work, I noticed a dark, bilious\u00a0plume of smoke on the horizon some three miles south of Glens Falls, NY while driving north from Saratoga Springs on Interstate 87, the Northway.\u00a0This is the main artery between New … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[105,88,25,97,98,108],"tags":[104,106,102,107,103,114],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright","category-digital-publications","category-diy","category-open-content","category-social-media-2","category-thoughtvectors","tag-associated-press","tag-creative-commons","tag-glens-falls-fire","tag-mobile-2","tag-ncpr","tag-thoughtvectors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":210,"url":"https:\/\/harwoodben.com\/?p=210","url_meta":{"origin":918,"position":0},"title":"Exploring the new Knowledge Commons at Penn State","author":"Ben Harwood","date":"February 26, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"While visiting my parents this weekend in State College, I took a trip up to the Penn State campus to visit the new Knowledge Commons in Pattee Library. 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