can I use this?

[cbcmary]

surfing for graphics and came upon Flickr and there are some great worship pictures in 'public' -- can't find anyway to find out if I can use in my service or even to ask permission. So is it just 'no' or what. I did see that each picture was marked 'all rights reserved'.

thanks
mary

[[Admin] skstarkiller]

Can you post a link? People can have different settings on flickr, but usually a best practice to assume the answer is no

[ChurchCopyright]

Unless you have explicit permission, the answer is "no".

[cbcmary]

I did register on Flickr and went searching a little better and figured out how to send an email to this person. Waiting for a reply. I'll let you know.

mary

[[Admin] osborn4]

In flickr advanced search, you can specifically search for things licensed under the Creative Commons license. As near as I can tell you have to search to get to advanced search.

On the advanced search page, scroll down to the bottom, select "Only search within Creative Commons-licensed content" and "Find content to use commercially" (churches are non-profit, but still commercial establishments).

Check "Find content to modify, adapt, or build upon" if you plan on modifying the work in any way.

I always check all three.

[cbcmary]

Thanks Joel ... did find that area but not able to locate what I was looking for. will try again when I have more time and hoping I will hear back from this person (who may not be contributing any more) but that's ok ... I'll just wait it out for a little while.

mary