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• Founder Collective fund rounds up Flickr, LiveOps co-founders and $40 million

  BNET - 2009-11-09

  Tags: Flickr, Co-founder, LiveOps Inc.

• Toyota and Saatchi Used Images From Flickr Without Permission

  BNET - 2009-11-06

  Toyota TM and its ad agency, Saatchi & Saatchi, have been accused of stealing photos from Flickr for use on a web site for the Toyota 4Runner. Toyota has apologized. by Jim Edwards

  Tags: Permission, Flickr, Toyota Motor Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Web Site Development, Marketing, Internet, Jim Edwards

• Flickr and Getty Images Want Your Photo Submissions

  BNET - 2009-11-05

  For professional and aspiring photographers alike, selling images to stock photography services like Getty Images can be tremendous way to boost your profile and get your images seen more places in print or online. In March, the Flickr Collection made its debut at Getty Images, with photographs...

  Tags: Flickr, Photograph, Getty Images

• Flickr Adds People Tagging With Opt-Out Controls

  BNET - 2009-10-21

  If you use Facebook, you're surely familiar with the option to tag the people in your photos. The feature both identifies them to viewers of the pic and lets them know a photo that includes them has been posted on the site. Today, venerable photo-sharing site Flickr...

  Tags: Facebook, Flickr, Photograph, Tagging

• Yahoo Launches Apps For Fantasy Football, Flickr and Finance

  PaidContent - 2009-09-08

  Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is making a big smartphone push, with a trio of iPhone apps for some of its most popular products, including Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Fantasy Football and Flickr. The Flickr app lets users upload and tag photos or videos onto the site directly from their phones. That...

  Tags: Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., Flickr, Finance, Yahoo Launch, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Companies, Yahoo, Joseph Tartakoff

• Flickr treads more lightly in copyright matter

  BNET - 2009-09-02

  Flickr has adopted a less severe way of handling copyright infringement claims after a small firestorm of controversy erupted about a photograph of President Barack Obama modified to look like The Dark Knight's rendition of the Joker comic-book villain.Previously, certain copyright infringement complaints were met with the removal of an...

  Tags: Flickr

• Social Media's Top 10 Dirty Little Secrets

  BNET - 2009-08-31

  Image uploaded by Stinky Pinkie on Flickr 1. Social climbers are attracted to social media That's right. The same people who climb their way up the social food chain in the real world tend to do well in the social...

  Tags: Social Media, food, Flickr

• Flickr Obama/Joker Takedown Story Gets... Odd

  BNET - 2009-08-28

  Tags: DMCA, Yahoo! Inc., Flickr, takedown, Time Magazine

• Obama as Joker parody sparks censorship storm

  BNET - 2009-08-21

  Firas Alkhateeb's mock Time Magazine cover and, right, the posters his work inspired. A Chicago student is at the centre of a censorship storm after a now famous image he created of US President Barack Obama as the Joker from The Dark Knight was removed from Flickr. The removal comes...

  Tags: Barack Obama, Flickr, censorship, Time Magazine

• Flickr says 'Obama Joker' image removal complied with takedown request

  BNET - 2009-08-21

  After a Chicago student gained national fame for editing a picture of President Obama in the image of the Joker villain from "The Dark Knight" and posting it to Flickr, some of the focus, especially among the tech community, quickly shifted to Flickr for removing the image. On a site...

  Tags: Flickr, Time Magazine