One of the awesome things about licensing stuff under the Creative Commons licenses is that you're never quite sure what will become of it. For the bulk of it, perhaps nothing, but every now and again something cool happens. So far, I've had people use the occasional picture from my flickr photostream as clip art on web sites, but today I got mail from someone who did something really neat with one (or more, it's hard to tell) of my photos from my trip to LCA Sydney. She made this video out of many many pictures of the same thing, and did a really awesome animation. It must have taken forever to get everything lined up.

I recently changed the license on my photographs at flickr to that of a attributions based creative commons license. They were previously 'all rights reserved', for no reason other than that was the default when I signed up.

The funny thing about doing this is that it means that your work starts turning up in places you didn't expect. Yesterday I spotted one of my pics used in an article on consumerist. All correctly attributed, even with a link back to the original photograph.

Some googling later, and it seems that someone else liked the pic of my junkmail mountain too.

So now I've a new pastime: finding out where and how people are using my photos.