1) there are a number of different types of Creative Commons licence, which give the creator different types of control, especially over commercial use or changing your photograph;
2) the underlying principles are based on a US-centric understanding of copyright law (e.g. no true concept of moral rights), and are being transposed into licences for different countries; and (most important)
3) in distinction from almost any other type of licence, a Creative Commons licence is irrevocable. You can never withdraw it.

This has commercial implications. Rolf is right in saying you can still sell your work, but what is its market value if it is already widely available under a Creative Commons licence? You can’t change your mind and say “oh, well, that licence is no longer valid”.

One final point: granting a CC licence may well allow people that you really might not approve of (terrorists, far right groups, Rupert Murdoch) to make use of your images in ways you do not like.

It’s worth looking at this:
http://technollama.blogspot.com/2007/04/cc-canadian-enforcement-case.html

and this:
http://technollama.blogspot.com/2007/07/virgin-australia-using-creative-commons.html

I’m not trying to put you off, just saying that you should take care in the way you use CC licences.

Thanks for all the great info on the podacsts and for all your work getting a show out each month.

I came to the Focus Ring (and your own shows) via Martin Baileys podcasts. I was interested in your conversations regarding protecting your copyright on images. On Martins latest show (#141) he spoke about a piece of software called TinEye currently in Beta version. Using this you can select a number of your images and the TinEye will search the internet for any matching images and come back with links to the sites where they are being used. Not sure how it works but sounds like something promising for internet use of images at least.

Keep up the great work.

I will gladly share some of my projects with you. I will be updating my website shortly with some of the work I have done so far. It will be scary and also fun to share my work with the calibre of photographers like you. I am an amatuer (in the older sense of the as you discuss on your history podcast), but have been shooting off and on since my college days (back in the 70’s and 80’s doing all black and white).

One of the things that I would be interested in learning how to do, is how to actually put together the physical portfolio of images not only for my use but for others I might be interested in showing the portfolio of images to. Perhaps a discussion topic for an upcoming focus ring?

It’s not the newest news - but due to the server problem I wasn’t able to post this before. We recorded a new Focus Ring and it was my turn to moderate and edit this time. It was worth the effort, I think.
This month John Arnold (PhotoWalkt…

Thanks for listening; I’ve been amazed at the number and diversity of folks who are listening to the history podcast…

Thank you for sharing your project planning document. Almost all the shooting I do now is project based, and having this guide will help provide me additional structure to my current projects (Wisconsin Archeology Above Ground) and a new project I have just started (documenting the rapidly disappearing old wooden silos from the Wisconsin landscape).

PS: Love your history of photography podcast. I have listened to it for the past 3 semesters and enjoy it immensely.