I regularly search for open licensed images to use in projects, posts- I prefer finding and giving credit to person’s work rather than generating it by the New Machines.
Speaking of which, I needed something to represent my blog as a powerful machine, and came upon this fun image found in Wikimedia Commons. I even remember having a toy robot like this as a kid.
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It indicates the image is licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-SA, so I am good to go. I do notice the page indicates it came from flickr, often I find it easier to use my own tool to instantly generate an attribution from a flickr CC licensed photo.
However the flickr link on the WIkimedia Commons page went to the authors entire flickr directory, I decided to see if I could find the source image, and even update the wikimedia page.
And lucky, I found the original image in flickr at https://www.flickr.com/photos/djmtm/7656274094/
BUT… there the image is listed as all rights reserved.
I guess its possible that the person who added it to Wikipedia (it looks like the same name as the one in flickr) decided to share it there under a CC license? For my purposes (just a slide in a presentation), I went with that.
It’s just sometimes never quite as clear cut as a list of licenses suggests! Any thoughts from license experts?