Photos you can use. Finding usable photographs -- that is, photos you have a right to use -- is an ongoing problem for people who run weblogs they would like to illustrate or news web sites that they want to keep visually up to date. Student news web sites in particular have this problem. For instance, as I write this, the big news of the day (Christmas Day, 2006) is that rock 'n roll legend James Brown has died. If I wanted to note that on my site and use his picture, that might once have presented an insurmountable problem.
No more, however.
Using photo posting sites such as Flickr and the idea of Creative Commons, small media sites that don't have the budget for wire or syndicated photos can have the illustrations they need to dress up their pages and present the kind of unique information that a photo can provide.
of course, you have to attribute the photo.
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