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.

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[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/