Flickr

[mrodgers]

I would but I only use Flickr to post photographs in this forum. Many are not photographs I have taken, but edits for repost, so I can't. Good idea though.

-Nick

I don't edit much for repost, but anything I edit of someone else's work I upload to Flickr instead of Photobucket that I usually upload to because I can mark them private. I mark any edits of other's work as private and delete it after a while (if I remember to).

That said, I don't have a Flickr stream with much on it (I posted in the other similar thread that is now dead I think). But I do have a simple free gallery that I created that I'd like to see feedback on. It is here: My Gallery

 

[photogod]

this is mine Flickr: PHOTO GOD1's Photostream

 

[tsaraleksi]

I haven't posted much of anything to flickr in the last couple of years because of some really serious problems with plagiarism/copyright violations amongst some members and users, and some basic problems with the flickr terms of service that allow them commercial rights to the images posted on the site.

Info on image theft

From their terms of service:

CONTENT SUBMITTED OR MADE AVAILABLE FOR INCLUSION ON THE YAHOO! SERVICES
Yahoo! does not claim ownership of Content you submit or make available for inclusion on the Yahoo! Services. However, with respect to Content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Yahoo! Services, you grant Yahoo! the following worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license(s), as applicable:

• With respect to Content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of Yahoo! Groups, the license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display such Content on the Yahoo! Services solely for the purposes of providing and promoting the specific Yahoo! Group to which such Content was submitted or made available. This license exists only for as long as you elect to continue to include such Content on the Yahoo! Services and will terminate at the time you remove or Yahoo! removes such Content from the Yahoo! Services.
• With respect to photos, graphics, audio or video you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Yahoo! Services other than Yahoo! Groups, the license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display such Content on the Yahoo! Services solely for the purpose for which such Content was submitted or made available. This license exists only for as long as you elect to continue to include such Content on the Yahoo! Services and will terminate at the time you remove or Yahoo! removes such Content from the Yahoo! Services.
• With respect to Content other than photos, graphics, audio or video you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Yahoo! Services other than Yahoo! Groups, the perpetual, irrevocable and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other works in any format or medium now known or later developed.

Essentially, they can use anything you post of flickr as advertising for their site, and they don't have to pay you.

There is nothing wrong with flickr for snapshot storage, etc, but the site is simply not a safe place for professional images. Why spend so much time making sure that your images are secure in various ways and then turn around and upload them to a site that is in no way interested in respecting your copyright?