If you take an Alitalia flight in November, have a look at the in-flight magazine, Ulisse. On page 80 you will find a reproduction of this picture of mine. On the facing page you will also find this other picture.
I think I shouldn’t complain, my pictures here on Flickr are available under a Creative Commons license, and the magazine is free, so this use should qualify as non-commercial. However, I wonder whether I should switch to a more restrictive license, or even reserve all rights. Since more than half the pictures on Ulisse are CC-licensed, if I hadn’t done the same, they would have simply chosen somebody else’s pictures.
Using a CC license, I get at least a validation that my pictures are good enough to be used for a magazine. What do you think?
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What’s your loss when they use your photo? What would you gain by retaining your rights?
Hi Ugo,
Four years later, I noticed you changed the license of your 2 published into All rights reserved.
What pushed you to do this? And were they just CC or CC-NC at the time the magazine published them?
Second, the in-flight magazines are indeed free, but they clearly intend to sell you something with the nice (free) pictures: the destinations advertised are always destination where the airline flies. So I think the “non commercial” quality of such a magazine is questionable. Of course, it’s not the most unethical use of CC licenses …
Thanks for replying,
jb
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At the moment, everything I publish is All Rights Reserved, except for the stranger portraits series, that are CC. I’, not getting many requests for licensing, so I don’t think it makes much of a difference either way.
Yes, those were CC-NC at the time the magazine published them and I agree with you: the non-commercial aspect is definitely questionable.
Thanks for your comment.