Question about flickr and photo copyright !

布小熊

Hi,
I've heard from a lyk that once I upload my photos to flickr I will lose the copyright of them? Can someone verify this?
Thanks a million!

daimo

don't quote me on that one, cos I have poor memory.

I remember it was the case of a mobile phone company used a personal pic (a Chinese girl) from a public photo website (which I thought was Flickr, but I'm not sure) and used it as an Ad in Australia.  It was on the news.

I went to Flickr's page, spent 30secs, cound't find anything about copyright though.

lerico

that is not true. There are so many different license you can set up on your account, it can be fully copyrighted to freely distributed.

daimo

Thanks for your clarification.  so I guess the girl must have set the account to be "freely distributed", which means she gave away the copyright.