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Normally, I’ll report on interesting things as I stumble upon them. This one, however, found me!

Schmap!! is an online/mobile international tour guide. They provide maps, locations of sights and information about the sights for lots of different cities all over the world.

I got an email from them as they wanted to use a picture from my Flickr account as an illustration in their guide to Berlin. The picture is licensed under a Creative Commons license, like all of my pictures, so they are free to use it in almost any way they like. It was nice of them to let me know they were using it, but they didn’t have to.

Now, if you visit the Berlin tour guide, you can see my picture! Clicking on it links back to the original Flickr page.

This is the kind of use of the Commons the Lessig was talking about in Free Culture. They have taken my photograph and added additional value to it by making it useful in a tour guide, and I think that’s great!

In other exciting news, The Pirate Bay Trial has started. This is the most important copyright trial of the century so far, and the Pirate Bay are really going all out trying to make this into a spectacle. There isn’t too much I can do to help them from here in the US, but I’ll be following the progress with a keen eye.

Rich!

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