Monday, November 8, 2010

Lady Gaga

            Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to expand a variety of creative works available for others to build upon legally to share. It is a great tool that is a free charge to the public. Flickr users offer their work under the Creative Commons license. Creative Commons has a license that is often called “free advertising” license because it allows people to download their works and share them with others as long as they mention you and link back to you. They cannot change the image in any way or use them commercially.
            Like this image of Lady Gage below: 
This is a picture of Lady Gaga that was taken using an iPhone Apple by John H, docjohnboy. He took this at Bazaar and this is not used for any commercial use. He made this visible to everyone and he was sharing this to show off that he saw Lady Gaga at a small venue and got her to sign a CD.
            Here’s another photo of Lady Gaga below:
This is a photo of Lady Gaga singing and this was a commercial image. Under the Attribution license it states that work should be specified by an author or licensor but not in any that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work. This image is Lady Gaga on Walmart Soundcheck and on the site page it gives credit to Walmart soundcheck with a link. The user that posted this photo was Carrie Stern, kindofadraag.
            Last photo of Gaga below: 
This image was taken by a paparrazi of some sort and was taken when Lady Gaga was leaving the Perth Airport.  No real name is given on the page and only shows lovelyhk. However, in the description it states that the photo is a Non-Exclusive Pix by Flynet in 2009 and the author leaves a phone number and the name Nicolas. He is the author of this photo from Australia and is trying to sell the photo to USA. He is not using the photo for a commercial use but he is trying to sell this image. 
            All these photos are following the licenses of Creative Commons and provided the right credit for using a celebrity image.