Archive for November 17th, 2017

Reunión de Líderes de APEC - Día 1, Presidencia de la República Mexicana (CC BY 2.0) https://flic.kr/p/Gqdbbn; Prime Minister Trudeau meets with President Enrique Peña Nieto ahead of a TPP meeting in Da Nang, Vietnam. November 10, 2017, Justin Trudeau, https://flic.kr/p/ZiDMPN

Closed by Default: Why is Prime Minister Trudeau Using Restrictive Terms for Flickr Image Use?

Yesterday’s post on the Canada, the TPP and intellectual property raised a concern unrelated to the content of the piece. Since updating my site several years ago, I use a Creative Commons licensed or public domain image for virtually every post, celebrating the remarkable creativity of people and organizations from around the world who make their work freely available for anyone to use. In searching for an updated image on the TPP, I encountered a problem that has arisen with increased frequency. Several governments posted relevant images from the meetings in Vietnam and the Philippines, but the Canadian images featured restrictive terms and conditions in the form of an all-rights-reserved approach.

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