e.g.
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/01/16/gmail-adds-new-shortcut-e/

The key is really looking at the copyright of the image you want to use..

Flickr lets the user select any of the following CC licences.

None (All rights reserved)
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Creative Commons
Attribution Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons
Attribution-NoDerivs Creative Commons

Technically the post should only use images with one of the last three licenses.

I think your on the right track, though creating a community/group within flickr that the post’s photo desk also contributes some images too. and encouraging that community to only add images to the group with a licenses that lets anybody use the image commercially or not with attribution.

I think that somehow connecting the Birmingham Flickr group or any other local “tribe” come to that and the Post is a good idea in principle.

It looks to me as though people are simply concerned about being ripped off. All of the photos on the Birmingham Flickr stream are taken for the love of it – just to record the city we all live and work in. I don’t think anybody on the stream has any overt commercial motive. That’s not what it’s about.

The thing is, that some photographs can be quite valuable – and most amateur photographers don’t realise this.

There is another strand to this, and that is that blogs and Web 2.0 based initiatives, if they capture the public imagination and zeitgeist, can be extraordinarily successful. Who is to say that this little acorn might not grow into a really successful, highly visited website????? The public – the punters, need recognition. It is the punters who make these thing really work, not the corporations behind them.

BP.