I begin by presenting you the different types of license disclaimers that may mark any work posted on Flickr: "All Rights Reserved", "Public Domain Work", "Public Domain Dedication (CC0)", "Attribution", "Attribution-ShareAlike", "Attribution NoDerivs", "Attribution-NonCommercial", "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike", "Attribution-NonComercial-NoDerivs", "United States government work", "No known copyright restriction". As you can see, the CC licenses are listed separately from the ones corresponding to public domain mark, and also separated from the most appealing “no known copyright restrictions” license, which has become very exploited, especially since the Flickr Commons project, which has been promoting it worldwide. Flickr Commons is a very interesting project that a lot of private and public institutions have joined, participating in something that we may call a “great sharing event”. Under the motto Help us catalog the world’s public photo archives, many museums, institutes, libraries, private collectors and curators have uploaded hundreds of photos and images on Flickr’s platform, with the purpose of encouraging the study, use and remix of the images in imaginative ways. This sounds very good, I know, but a very close look at what this "no known copyright restrictions" license really is will help us discover the one and only perpetual truth of the online environment – never trust without reading or stop judging by appearance. 1. “No known copyright restriction” is not equivalent to “no copyright restrictions” I admit that this might be confusing since these phrases are highly similar. The difference is mainly directed by the word “known” which diverts the focus from “restrictions” (in general) to “restrictions known” by someone (if any). So, “no copyright restrictions” means (in general and without additional info) that the forbiddance specific to copyright is not applied, and “no known copyright restriction” means that if there are some copyright restrictions, they are not known. The verb know is also… Un răspuns