I <3 Science

[foxtongue]

WIRED is using one of my photos for an article on oxytocin, called ‘Love Hormone’ Arouses Suspicion, Too. I wish they had asked first, but even so, I can't think of anything more apt.

Comments

[niac.livejournal.com]

Nice! I hope they're paying you for it.

[porphyre.livejournal.com]

Nope. They didn't even ask permission.

[niac.livejournal.com]

Wow, lame. Send them a bill for $500.

IAAIL

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Under the license you've selected it doesn't look like they have to ask, just attribute, but they are violating the non-commercial part.

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

IAAIL = "I am an Internet lawyer" ?

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

That's the creepiest "yes" I've ever seen.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

[sr-smith.livejournal.com]

I think it's awesome to see your work there, but it would be nice if they'd offered you something for it, or at least emailed you to ask.

wired

[doublej42.livejournal.com]

Awesome, how did they find it to use it?

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

They probably just did a Flickr search for Creative Commons images and maybe sorted by tags; the Consumerist does that all the time to find somewhat-relevant images for their news items..

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

that's awesome (in particular, for your CV and street cred).

[a-dream-tiger.livejournal.com]

http://nocamels.com/2011/01/can-laughter-help-you-get-pregnant/

Yes that is Jhayne "laughing her way to fertility" (Rabbit Hole Day anyone?)

-T

P.S. I set up a few Google alerts for mine and my friends Flickr accounts to get email notice when someone attributes an image to them:
http://www.google.com/search?q=link:http://www.flickr.com/photos/foxtongue/

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

yet another photo taken from Jhayne, with no credits!

[a-dream-tiger.livejournal.com]

The definitely credited her at the bottom (which is how my Google alert for http://www.google.com/search?q=link:http://www.flickr.com/photos/foxtongue/ found it). In my understanding the question (asked more by others than by Jhayne herself) is more about the non-commercial part of the CC license, especially for something like the Wired article which is not a casual blog. Also there is the courtesy of notifying the image owner, even when the CC license does not require it. I get the impression that Jhayne has been on the whole relatively pleased by the wired use of her image and more or less amused or pleased by most of the others linked on her Facebook. Of course I expect compensation for non-commercial use would be welcome, in any case.

I also find it pleasing that this use comes from someone searching oxytocin and finding, instead of a science image, a bit of a love story narrative and the editor doing the search likely decided the image was too lovely to ignore and chose it for the article. She is pleasing editors tasked with filling in article images by having unexpectedly lovely and compelling pictures surface from ordinary Flickr CC content searches on science terms.

Kind of similar to this one that is a far more artistic rendering than the person searching for images of "mouth bacteria" was expecting (art reposted on Jhayne's Flickr):
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/02/mouthbugs/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/foxtongue/2720226945/