Tribe.net. Local Connections liana http://creativecommons.tribe.net/thread/5ae5f014-caf1-49b1-8303-87d2708984fc#9db7edf0-e7ad-427a-9aee-61a39e8ce7ed 2005-02-27T04:39:54Z 2005-02-27T04:39:54Z

The Public Library of Science (PLoS) publishes biomedical magazines, and all the content is under a non-restrictive CC attribution license--including the art. Photos, science illustrations, and fine art. The search feature isn't very strong yet, but there are hundreds and hundreds of images available there. Go to www.plos.org and click through to the journals.

liana 2005-02-27T04:39:54Z Eli http://creativecommons.tribe.net/thread/5ae5f014-caf1-49b1-8303-87d2708984fc#2aa20eed-008d-4419-a7a9-96b6312a658a 2004-11-24T02:35:22Z 2004-11-24T02:35:22Z

Wikipedia now has a sister project, Wikimedia Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Public domain and free CC (but not non commercial) licensed media: movies, photos, sound files, texts are all allowed. Emphasis seems to be on images and sound files now, but it is fairly new. Image copyright status tags with allowed/not-allowed status: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Image_copyright_tags Wikisource seems to be the main place for text files. http://wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page

Eli 2004-11-24T02:35:22Z Alfie http://creativecommons.tribe.net/thread/5ae5f014-caf1-49b1-8303-87d2708984fc#2b62f590-f6ad-4e61-972b-134dcf3a94f3 2004-06-01T13:48:23Z 2004-06-01T13:48:23Z

my site, www.mobloguk.com , although a moblogging site, caters to a wide range of photographers. Many are semi/professional photgraphers who like to use it as a sort of repository. Most of our users adopt a CC license, which we offer on sign up, and so much of the site is open for licensing.

Alfie 2004-06-01T13:48:23Z Eli http://creativecommons.tribe.net/thread/5ae5f014-caf1-49b1-8303-87d2708984fc#929ac707-921b-4c7e-a6f7-9f9c41bc54a8 2003-12-29T23:22:50Z

If I were more entrepreneurial, I'd start a stock photography online store dedicated to open licensed photos. But I'm not. Has anyone else done this?

Eli 2003-12-29T23:22:50Z Ryan http://creativecommons.tribe.net/thread/5ae5f014-caf1-49b1-8303-87d2708984fc#0d0925a2-5531-4bc1-9fc2-bcc391813040 2003-12-30T07:14:30Z

The only ones i've seen even close are these, and IMHO they are poorly suited to the task of finding stock imagery: http://openphoto.net/ http://web2.unt.edu/weblibrary/freemedi/gallery/index.php Note both of these are linked to as CC content portals. But you touched a nerve with this question. I have already taken it upon myself (and looking for more help) to do this among other CC related hosting projects. Very very early planning stages, essentially a domain, sourceforge project, and have some initial ideas/goals outlined. http://openmedias.sourceforge.net/overview.html http://openmedias.sourceforge.net The future home of the public web presence will be http://www.openmedias.org Feel free to contact me: info_at_openmedias.org or join the discussion lists here: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=95686 heck, why not... i'll create a tribe too http://openmedias.tribe.net And if you find anyone already doing this in a satisfactory way let me know so i can adjust the goals of the project accordingly. Cheers, Ryan

Ryan 2003-12-30T07:14:30Z Eli http://creativecommons.tribe.net/thread/5ae5f014-caf1-49b1-8303-87d2708984fc#d4463b46-d93a-4312-8ac2-a01984f49519 2003-12-30T20:51:12Z

The problem with both of those is that the licensing is site wide, not per image. Neither seems to be a clearing house for small time photographers to release their images to a wider base, either. Both are things I was thinking would be needed.

Eli 2003-12-30T20:51:12Z Ryan http://creativecommons.tribe.net/thread/5ae5f014-caf1-49b1-8303-87d2708984fc#7dced700-c841-4b89-b720-6d48f2c409d4 2003-12-31T04:08:28Z

Yes. Those seem to be more along the lines of a "collection" released under one license umbrella. but CC has so many license options, and there are others that are applicable but not CC. Personally part of my motivation was the desire to add truely useful features such as median/average/highlight color value indexing, more detail about resolutions avail etc. Stuff people who use stock photography in the print world REALLy care about. But alas it's only the tip of the content iceberg. Let the brainstorming commence!

Ryan 2003-12-31T04:08:28Z