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In this deal, Getty will provide its royalty-free--but still copyright-protected--image database to Lulu so that its members can use the contents in their self-published books, photo books and calendars. Lulu has emphasized the copyright-friendly nature of the agreement, explaining in a release that the high-resolution version of a Getty image is not "married" to a Lulu book until right before production. This way, according to Lulu, digital rights management restrictions on the stock images are honored.
Partnering with a company that specializes in copyrighted images is somewhat unusual for a company like Lulu, whose roots are definitively open source. The self-publishing site was founded by Robert Young, who co-founded Red Hat Linux along with Marc Ewing in 1994.
In addition to offering self-publishing on demand to members, Lulu has also sold titles from the Internet Archive's Open Library, considered by some to be an open-source equivalent to Google's controversial Library Project.
Lulu touts 200,000 recently published titles with more than 5,000 additions each week. In addition to selling self-published books, the site also offers e-books, CDs, DVDs, and music and software downloads, with editorial and copyright control in the hands of the individual publisher. There's no fee to publish on Lulu, but the site does take a commission from each sale.
The Getty database will be available to Lulu members beginning this summer.
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- search interface to find Creative Commons licensed images from Flickr (tens of millions)
- archived licenses for public inspection forever (sample: http://flickrcash.com/lightbox_install/r6oz1yt6 )
- so images can be used commercially or non-commercially with attribution
see this post from CreativeCommons.org
"FlickrCash - The Most Sophisticated Flickr/CC mashup yet"
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7390
http://flickrcash.com/license/7zj1of7d
website
http://flickrcash.com
sample installable slideshows and grids
http://flickrcash.com/lightbox_install/rnx2nu1v