Saw this while I was walking into the city earlier today - down in the bottom corner it says that the photo is from flickr.com/photos/chewywong.
I wonder if he knows that his photo is being used here (most of his photos seem to be using a Creative Commons Attribution license). Anyway - congratulations!
For clarification, this is an advertising campaign being ran by Virgin Mobile in Australia. There have been sightings of these billboards containing photos from Flickr in both Melbourne (Victoria, Australia) and Adelaide (South Australia, Australia).
There is a post in the FlickrCentral group about this photo - www.flickr.com/groups/central/discuss/72157600541608353/
Samuel Webster, Hughes Léglise-Bataille, tedreese, gubávas, and 144 other people added this photo to their favorites.
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gopherboy76 40 months ago | reply
Being a Photographer by trade, I've come to be very cautious on how to apply Creative Commons to any images I upload to the internet. I personally think Virgin took advantage with how they gathered the images although they were following the Creative Commons copyright, which is flimsy at best. If it was one of my images they had used, i would have preferably liked some sort of notification from them prior to publication, although they are technically not obliged.
My main concern is to previous posts and other articles that mention the issue of Paedophilia, I would say this is utter nonsense. There are two professional photographers in my family, me and my father. Over the years we have taken countless photographs of family and friends, including my 3yr old son and 1yr old niece, if taking pictures of family members is classed as Paedophillia then we, and half of the world, would be guilty. It's pure rubbish and isn't even relevent, why it has even been suggested is beyond my fathoming. Just another example of political correctness going out of control.
aiavibe 39 months ago | reply
so after the campaign did alison receive one of these ad posters from Virgin so she could atleast pin it up on her bedroom door? :)
D Pimborough gone 26 months ago | reply
and the moral of the story is use the all rights reserved copyright license.
and advertising companies stop being so lazy and contact the photo owner before use (which is an anagram of sue LOL) honestly the quality of advertising staff these is really poor.
Yeremilla 14 months ago | reply
Well, I think the creative commons licensing model was designed to give knowledge a chance, but in all fair spirits. It is wrong to take a picture out of context or just plain insult the models.
I saw a post that addresses what you can do and cant do in a with a flickr royalty-free picture